Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:40559 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87742 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2008 22:10:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Sep 2008 22:10:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=greg@chiaraquartet.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=greg@chiaraquartet.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain chiaraquartet.net from 208.83.222.18 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: greg@chiaraquartet.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 208.83.222.18 unknown Linux 2.6 Received: from [208.83.222.18] ([208.83.222.18:44807] helo=mail.bluga.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 89/D5-54234-FD1D2D84 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:10:40 -0400 Received: from mail.bluga.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bluga.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C5CC0E7F2; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:09:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from Greg-Beavers-monster.local (unknown [76.84.4.101]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bluga.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4947C0E7F1; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:09:41 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <48D2D1DA.7090802@chiaraquartet.net> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:10:34 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070807) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: marius popa CC: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver) marius popa 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 would also eliminate constants from PHP, as currently they are T_STRING and variables would become T_STRING. Not a good idea. Thanks, Greg