Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:40546 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 77729 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2008 15:26:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Sep 2008 15:26:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=kris@koehntopp.de; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=kris@koehntopp.de; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain koehntopp.de designates 85.214.35.184 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: kris@koehntopp.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.214.35.184 news.koehntopp.de Received: from [85.214.35.184] ([85.214.35.184:5921] helo=koehntopp.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 75/76-44246-01372D84 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:26:10 -0400 Received: from news.koehntopp.de ([85.214.35.184] helo=[127.0.0.1] ident=kris) by koehntopp.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Debian)) id 1KgLOQ-0002ri-01; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:26:06 +0200 Cc: marius popa , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <50D7C897-8D1C-46DA-889F-4C8A206A9B0C@koehntopp.de> To: Rasmus Lerdorf In-Reply-To: <48D26C99.9020400@lerdorf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:26:04 +0200 References: <48D26C99.9020400@lerdorf.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc From: kris@koehntopp.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_K=F6hntopp?=) On 18.09.2008, at 16:58, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > And how do you propose to do string interpolation? You could do it using an interpolation operator in String constants. echo "This is a #{var} in a string."; /* Ruby does it using this */ But why break compatibility for a purely aesthetical problem? Kris --=20 Kristian K=F6hntopp https://www.xing.com/profile/Kristian_Koehntopp http://blog.koehntopp.de