Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:18885 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64285 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Sep 2005 12:55:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64270 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2005 12:55:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Sep 2005 12:55:14 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:33963] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 8D/A6-41173-1BD18234 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:55:13 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8ECt4YY020516; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:55:04 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8ECt0BQ020507; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:55:01 +0200 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:54:57 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Ilia Alshanetsky cc: Rasmus Lerdorf , pierre.php@gmail.com, internals In-Reply-To: <4326FFAB.4080301@prohost.org> Message-ID: References: <4326D0C8.8080509@prohost.org> <4326D361.9040200@lerdorf.com> <4326FFAB.4080301@prohost.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable? > > Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will > immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using > ASCII identifier with standard "compat" layer could run just fine. I don't see why this is a problem... > Another reason to only allow ASCII is that now code can be read by > anyone rather then just the people who are familiar with the particular > language user. Heck, some editors do not even allow utf-8 or properly > render some high-ascii chars making those scripts difficult if not > impossible to edit. Again, I don't see why this support would be a problem for *you*... if other people want to use it, let them. It doesn't hurt anybody who really doesn't use it. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org