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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025, at 5:36 AM, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2025, Jakub Zelenka wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:00=E2=80=AFPM Gina P. Banyard <internals@gp=
b.moe> wrote:
>>=20
>> > It is this time of year again where we proposed a list of=20
>> > deprecations to add in PHP 8.5:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5
>>
>> Here are few notes on the ones that I don't agree with:
>>=20
>> >  Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec
>>=20
>> I think this might be too big BC break that might impact many scripts=20
>> - would be good to see also if it impacts OSS projects. I guess it=20
>> will impact even more non public code bases.
>
> Indeed, I use this *all the time* in quick hacky shell scripts in PHP.=20
> Best practise? Definitely not. But it certainly is very useful.

Is their use for quick hacky scripts worth the cost of reserving a symbo=
l that could be repurposed for something else more generally useful in t=
he future?  (Not immediately of course, but eventually.)

--Larry Garfield