> Hi! > > > This is true, if you know they are called a backtick. It's not a > > I think it's reasonable to expect some minimal level of knowledge from > the user. We're not targeting infants in the kindergarten here. So while > we aim to not present too many obstacles to the novice user, we can > reasonably expect from them at least basic middle-school level knowledge > and abilities - and occasional read of the documentation never killed > anybody either. >
Hi, I didn't know the name of this character until several years after I started PHP, and I only found out because a colleague pointed it out to me. I don't think it's a good idea to assume people know the name of this operator or known how to find it easily. Googling is a skill on its own that not everyone masters, as much as I'd like to see this in our field. I also don't see how school knowledge is important here, especially as I went to school and I did not learn about it there. Besides of this, there are also keyboard( layout)s that don't have a backtick character present. Regards, Lynn van der Berg
