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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:43:27 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dots and spaces in variable names are converted to
 underscores.
From: nrixham@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham)

Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
> On 21.01.2010, at 18:21, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> For BC, I suppose PHP could have *both* 'a.b' and 'a_b', or yet
>> another php.ini flag (sorry!) to choose the behaviour.
> 
> -1 from me.
> I don't think we need to keep backward compatibility for this. PHP-6 is a major release, after all.
> 
> It would be absolutely enough to add optional var-name conversion to extract()

any word from anybody on the development team to say if this "removal of
dot conversion" (whether optional or not) can be added to some todo list
or suchlike and rolled out at some point soon~ish?