On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:50 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 5:45 PM Mark Randall <marand...@php.net> wrote: > > > Hi Internals, > > > > I put forward the following RFC "Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2)" for > > discussion. > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-backtick-operator-v2 > > > > I believe it is at least worth a discussion as to the pros and cons of > > deprecating this functionality, especially in light of the existence of > > better described and more well-known functions exhibiting identical > > behaviour. > > > > This RFC only covers the issuing a deprecation notice, and its complete > > removal would be contained within a separate RFC. > > > > Usage of backtick operator in packagist top 2k packages: > https://gist.github.com/nikic/7b0afaf4d8b1a1087cdb61cd1e776594 > There are 72 occurrences including duplicates. > > Make of that whatever you will :) I did some further analysis on the output of Nikita's script. Ignoring the duplicate WordPress package, all the occurrences are in just 21 unique projects. In 8 of these, the backtick uses are exclusively in test files or other scripts not part of the library source code. Then there are 11 packages with one or two uses each, and only 2 packages with more than two occurrences. Raw numbers: https://gist.github.com/theodorejb/584f2a1e27e93fb5da2d9b0e8e7a0d34 Best regards, Theodore -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
