Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:18847 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55606 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Sep 2005 22:28:07 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55591 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2005 22:28:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2005 22:28:07 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.74.107.235:55697] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 3C/71-41173-57257234 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:28:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 31024 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2005 22:28:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ANDI-NOTEBOOK.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2005 22:28:01 -0000 Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050913152755.057a2de0@localhost> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:27:58 -0700 To: Andrei Zmievski , Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Ilia Alshanetsky ,pierre.php@gmail.com, internals In-Reply-To: References: <4326D0C8.8080509@prohost.org> <4326D361.9040200@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) Me too... At 09:16 AM 9/13/2005, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >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 now >>>use language specific chars by changing the locale, so that =9E, =C4=8D,= =C3=BF 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 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 >> >>-- >>PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >-- >PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php