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I think that the fact it has taken this long to even deprecate, let alone remove, utter garbage like these functions is a prime example of why PHP is often reviled.

It almost makes you wonder if the point isn't to keep catering to bad programmers' whims just to keep from losing the 50% of PHP's community that would never be able to write software at all if they weren't working in a language that enabled them to ignore every best practice from the past 20 years.

I kid, I kid. Mostly.