Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75841 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78664 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2014 12:44:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jul 2014 12:44:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:40518] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CC/A0-09870-9BC5EC35 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:44:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B79A2400D7; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:44:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rF3uJCju4-dI; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:44:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6C442400DC; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:44:36 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:44:33 +0100 Cc: Nikita Popov , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: To: Ferenc Kovacs X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Uniform Variable Syntax From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 22 Jul 2014, at 13:38, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > Derick mentioned in his blogpost( > http://derickrethans.nl/uniform-variable-syntax.html) that "You can't > really write a scanner for it, as the code could already have been > converted.=94. Of course what he said was true, but I=92m not sure it=92s important. If = you scan your code before converting, or you revert to where you were = prior to conversion (any project with proper version control should be = able to do this) and then scan it, it=92s going to work. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/