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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:38:43 -0700
To: "marius popa" <mapopa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc
From: mike503@gmail.com (mike)

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:47 AM, marius popa <mapopa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at the examples used in php.js library
> http://phpjs.org/functions/index
> and it struck me that is cleaner to read the functions and code without the
> $ names in it
>
> From what i understand  $ in front of variables is an Perl legacy

This is an utterly horrible idea. No offense. Why would you  change
the entire syntax of the language? I don't think any language has
-ever- changed it's syntax like that once it's been established...

Personally I love the $. It makes it so much easier to identify
variables. It's a single character. Can't see the need honestly to
even bring this up.