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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@ symbol)
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 01/04/2016 07:22 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think it is a good idea, currently, for the following reasons:
>>
> [::snip::]
> 
> It terrifies me to say this, but I completely agree with Stas. ;)
> 
> I can't personally remember the last time I used @ in any production
> code, but my one-offs are replete with them.  It's a quintessentially
> PHP feature in its pragmatism.
> 
> Okay, I'll put the thesaurus down.

I'd be quite sad to see @ disappear as well. It was one of PHP's
earliest features and its roots date back to mid-80's DOS batch files
(before 1/3 of this list were born I would guess)

-Rasmus