Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:101853 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72974 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2018 20:54:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Feb 2018 20:54:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk designates 185.153.204.214 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 185.153.204.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [185.153.204.214] ([185.153.204.214:56882] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D5/B6-26725-6EEF18A5 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:54:00 -0500 Received: (qmail 11552 invoked by uid 89); 12 Feb 2018 20:53:55 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 11546, pid: 11549, t: 0.0952s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 12 Feb 2018 20:53:55 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:53:54 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecate the backtick operator From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 12/02/18 20:43, Wes wrote: > No technical reason. Keep in mind that people dislike... a lot... writing > \strlen() (with the leading \) so I thought they would also dislike writing > u"unicode" or any other solution that uses more than 2 enclosing characters. My personal fix for that particular problem is simply use unicode IN core and ditch mbstring. That is not going to happen before I pass on, but hopefully some later version of PHP will not have to worry at all about unicode ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk