Before replying (quickly) to this, I want to point out, again, that it’s mind boggling we have to start discussing non-topics and spend time, energy and mental strength on this endless stream of out-of-the-blue deprecation proposals.
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 5:32 Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> wrote: > > 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. So in the non-representative sample of the PHP codebase at large, we have it used in roughly 1% of the packages. That’s not “just” - that’s a lot for a language as ridiculously popular as PHP is. 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. > That’s another clue right there - of course it’s less likely to be found in library code, and more likely to be found in admin scripts - which are in turn less likely to be in packagist or otherwise public. That said, the key point here has nothing to do with the popularity. It has to do with the fact that nothing, absolutely nothing happened since this feature was introduced to make us even consider removing it. Each and every one of the supplied motivations for supposedly removing it existed in exactly the same way when it was introduced. Current internals@ folks having a different opinion over the exact same facts is NOT sufficient grounds for removing it or even starting a discussion about it. Something new and very substantial has to happen for us to even start having this conversation. That’s how it’s always been and that’s how it should stay. Zeev
