Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:18833 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36615 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Sep 2005 16:16:13 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36600 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2005 16:16:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2005 16:16:13 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([204.11.219.139:34775] helo=colo.lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 00/4F-58045-D4BF6234 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:16:13 -0400 Received: from [66.228.175.145] (borndress-lm.corp.yahoo.com [66.228.175.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-4) with ESMTP id j8DGFweM018402; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:15:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4326D361.9040200@lerdorf.com> References: <4326D0C8.8080509@prohost.org> <4326D361.9040200@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Ilia Alshanetsky , pierre.php@gmail.com, internals Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:16:13 -0700 To: Rasmus Lerdorf X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski) Yep, what Rasmus said. -Andrei On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: >> Pierre Joye wrote: >> >>> is not something I like to see. For language constructs, I would >>> really like to have only ASCII support... >> >> >> +1 IMHO language identifiers should be limited to ASCII. Yes you can=20= >> now >> use language specific chars by changing the locale, so that =C5=BE, = =C4=8D, =C3=BF=20 >> are >> taken, but that hardly makes for portable code. > > What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable? Because you can't = read > it? It will still run. Limiting identifiers to ASCII is an = artificial > limitation as far as I am concerned. I see no reason for it. It's = not > as if people are going to suddenly write code for distribution with = all > sorts of weird unicode identifiers. We support high-ascii today and=20= > you > never see those in public code. Java has had unicode identifiers > forever as well, and it doesn't seem to be a problem for them. > > For people writing localized code it is very nice to be able to use > descriptive identifiers in their own character set. It makes it much > easier to understand the code for them. > > -Rasmus > > --=20 > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php