> Only nobody uses php that way since decades. … in your echo chamber. I know first hand of multiple very large corps doing that (one of them being a bank and

> Only nobody uses php that way since decades. … in your echo chamber. I know first hand of multiple very large corps doing that (one of them being a bank and this is their payment api) and very many smaller shops. Sure, we recommend against it, but saying it’s decades ago like that is nonsense; many people do this because it’s convenient.