PHP struggles with attributes syntax

Posted Aug 13, 2020 11:03 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: PHP struggles with attributes syntax by smurf
Parent article: PHP struggles with attributes syntax

> And, well, a backslash is only reasonable if you've been socialized on Windows.

A subset of windows users at that. Japanese Win/DOS had ¥ everywhere \ was used. It's probably baked in as a hard alias for compatibility nowadays.