Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025, at 5:36 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2025, Jakub Zelenka wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> wrote: >> >> > It is this time of year again where we proposed a list of >> > deprecations to add in PHP 8.5: >> > >> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5 >> >> Here are few notes on the ones that I don't agree with: >> >> > Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec >> >> I think this might be too big BC break that might impact many scripts >> - would be good to see also if it impacts OSS projects. I guess it >> will impact even more non public code bases. > > Indeed, I use this *all the time* in quick hacky shell scripts in PHP. > Best practise? Definitely not. But it certainly is very useful. Is their use for quick hacky scripts worth the cost of reserving a symbol that could be repurposed for something else more generally useful in the future? (Not immediately of course, but eventually.) --Larry Garfield