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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc
From: Hartmut.Holzgraefe@Sun.COM (Hartmut Holzgraefe)

marius popa wrote:

>> 1. Break every single PHP script that is currently in existence.
> maybe an legacy mode can be included in ini

we want less of such legacy mode options, not more

plus this would have to be configured per application
and not just per server

>> 2. Break syntax highlighting (and probably other tools/functions) for
>> every IDE that is currently in existence.
> this can be fixed by each ide , I talk about something like

sure it can be fixed, but you missed the *every* part

plus IDEs, editors, highlight tools etc. would have to support
both old and new for quite a while


>> I'm not sure that much more needs to be said.
> I can give another practical example in  wxjscript
> from this javascript example that can be run on apache server you can see
> that is simpler to read and to learn at least for an beginner
> http://www.wxjavascript.net/mysql/index.html

so instead of clearly marking variables with $ as such
there they need to be declared with 'var' instead, and
'->' is replaced by '.' ...

... i don't see much of a difference there from a learning
point of view though


> What i want to say is that php must go forward and yes you can
> change/break things in the engine
> like in the php 4 to php 5 migration or php5 to php6

sure we can break things if there is a compelling reason
to do so, i'm just totally missing the compelling part here ...


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