Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31060 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38894 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38879 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jul 2007 18:37:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 63.205.162.114 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 63.205.162.114 unknown Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [63.205.162.114] ([63.205.162.114:63037] helo=us-ex1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B2/59-01090-CDD5E964 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:37:20 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.16.180]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:37:12 -0700 Message-ID: <469E5DD0.8090608@zend.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:37:04 -0700 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keryx Web CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <469E5B35.2030602@keryx.se> In-Reply-To: <469E5B35.2030602@keryx.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2007 18:37:12.0163 (UTC) FILETIME=[A7C2DB30:01C7C96A] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let blocks From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > Now that namespaces seem to be on their way into PHP 6 I wonder if > let-blocks, as in JavaScript 1.7+, ever has been considered for PHP, to > hide global variables from each other? I personally am not convinced that PHP has any need for convoluted scoping rules that "let" creates. What would be a use case that would require such function? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com