The ${var} syntax has always been my preferred approach. In all the editors I’ve used it syntax highlights as if you had typed “.$var.”, rather than just displa

The ${var} syntax has always been my preferred approach. In all the editors I’ve used it syntax highlights as if you had typed “.$var.”, rather than just displaying $var in bold and same colour as the string literal. Plus it allows for more flexible use of arrays or objects Sad to see the way PHP is killing backwards compatibility. There has always been a way to bodge it with previous BC breaks like removal of mysql and mcrypt, but this isn’t fixable without code changes. I don’t even see any advantage, seems like change for the sake of change