Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:40573 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47417 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2008 16:21:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Sep 2008 16:21:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 213.152.38.186 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.152.38.186 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Linux 2.6 Received: from [213.152.38.186] ([213.152.38.186:61438] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 34/BB-65213-F1325D84 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:21:53 -0400 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Kh5DP-0003em-QS; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:21:47 +0100 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:21:47 +0100 To: Sotiris Karavarsamis Cc: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20080920162147.GR30186@mint.phcomp.co.uk> References: <962975.69490.qm@web36405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <6973016.20080920004704@marcus-boerger.de> <48D4FE18.7080404@sci.fi> <21a817cacf54bb91d3a8c8d635ba786d@cshell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21a817cacf54bb91d3a8c8d635ba786d@cshell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 06:35:25PM +0300, Sotiris Karavarsamis wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:43:52 +0300, Jani Taskinen > wrote: > > Marcus Boerger kirjoitti: > >> Hello Ionut, > >> > >> a Friend suggested to replace it with a Euro sign, so that PHP code > > gets > >> worth more :-) > > > > Hey, why not make it configurable (ini option) ?! :D > > I really do not find it reasonable to change the dollar sign to something > else. > If we could switch the dollar sign notation in variables on and off > with a directive in php.ini, that would break backwards compatibility > between apps > not only in a single user environments but also in shared hosting envs. > Imagine having to switch into dollar sign notation for a phpbb installation > and to a notation without the dollar sign for a custom application. It's > just > crazy! I doubt that that was a serious suggestion. Just a joke. Although I do like the idea of replacing dollar with euro .... :-) -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include