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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:50:27 +0200
To: "marius popa" <mapopa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com ("Hannes Magnusson")

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 16:47, 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 t=
he
> $ names in it
>
> From what i understand  $ in front of variables is an Perl legacy


I totally agree. Its really annoying needing to type $ all the time,
not to mention how hard it is on Norwegian keyboards. Lets replace it
with =A3 !
There is even a "patch" available:
http://php.markmail.org/message/jsex75rowudeu2nr

-Hannes