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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:13:38 +0200
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>, smalyshev@gmail.com
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@ symbol)
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 7:28 AM
> To: Sara Golemon; Stanislav Malyshev
> Cc: Junade Ali; PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@
> symbol)
>
> 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)

Same here.

Zeev