In this last instalment of our PHP 8 article series, we are going to cover support for several new features and improvements to arrays, variables, operators, exception handling, traits, and more.

Backslash () Used as an escape character to represent special characters within strings. For example, \" represents a double quote within a double-quoted string. Ampersand (&) Used in various contexts ...

It is possible, but not pretty. The appeal is further reduced by the fact that the back-slash character is an escape character in PHP strings and an escape character in regular expressions. We need to ...