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Subject: Re: Migration tooling and the cumulative cost of purely syntactical
 deprecations
From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall)
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On 11/10/2019 11:25, Nikita Popov wrote:
> Purely syntactical deprecations, such as the recently discussed case of
> backticks, but also the already accepted deprecations of the "alternative
> array access syntax" and the (real) cast, can be performed automatically
> and with perfect reliability.

I imagine it would allow immediately crossing off a few points of 
confusion such as these casts:

(unset)
(integer)
(boolean)
(double)
(real)