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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:54:08 +0300
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:12 PM
> To: Bob Weinand
> Cc: Developers Mailing List PHP
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers
>
> 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.

Thumbs up for the idea as well, but I don't think we can live with the
implementation.  BTW, that's a bit of a grey area but I think that even if
an idea is accepted, if there's no reasonably clean implementation
available for it, I don't think it can go in.

Zeev