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… sniff (RFC) ... to facilitate detection of the PHP 8.5 deprecated backtick operator: > . The backtick operator as an alias for shell_exec() has been deprecated. > RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5#deprecate_backticks_as_an_alias_for_shell_exec This commit introduces a new `RemovedLanguageConstruct` sniff to detect this deprecation and allow for other language constructs to be deprecated/removed in the future. Refs: * https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5#deprecate_backticks_as_an_alias_for_shell_exec * https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/1570ce9f551f7dff3f51690e5c03b0f5ae0e159f/UPGRADING#L373 * php/php-src 19443 * php/php-src@3d9d68e Related to 1849
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... to facilitate detection of the PHP 8.5 deprecated backtick operator:
This commit introduces a new
RemovedLanguageConstructsniff to detect this deprecation and allow for other language constructs to be deprecated/removed in the future.Refs:
shell_exec()php/php-src#19443Related to #1849