Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5

On 06.08.2025 at 06:21, Theodore Brown wrote: > I just analyzed the top 1500 Composer packages for a couple more of the proposed syntax > deprecations, and found the following: > > ## Deprecate non-standard cast names: > 197 non-standard casts in 25 unique packages. > > ## Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec: > 49 backtick operator executions in 10 unique packages. > > I find it ironic that the more widely used of these proposals has the least opposition to > deprecate (100% in favor so far), while deprecating semicolon-terminated case statements > (which has zero usages in the top 1500 packages) currently has more opposition than either > of these. I would not necessarily expect backtick operators to be used in top Composer packages. That is likely a feature used by some private shell scripts; maybe sometimes quick and dirty through-away/ use-once scripts. Christoph