Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69745 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70186 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2013 09:11:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Oct 2013 09:11:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:56488] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 25/0A-10840-65146625 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:11:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF029E202D; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:47 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Bob Weinand cc: Developers Mailing List PHP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Bob Weinand wrote: > I have started the vote for extended keyword support RFC: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/keywords_as_identifiers Just to explain why I voted "no". I think the idea is good, but what I see from the patch is that it adds a *lot* of hand written state machines which are going to be a pain to maintain. I do not think this extra maintenance is worth the features - we've done pretty well without it. cheers, Derick