Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:91631 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 77240 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2016 10:23:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Mar 2016 10:23:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=james@asgrim.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=james@asgrim.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain asgrim.com designates 109.74.205.7 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: james@asgrim.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 109.74.205.7 thor.asgrim.com Received: from [109.74.205.7] ([109.74.205.7:56620] helo=thor.asgrim.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D1/53-50603-4AC92E65 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:23:33 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-f177.google.com (mail-lb0-f177.google.com [209.85.217.177]) (Authenticated sender: james.asgrim) by thor.asgrim.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90ADBAA5AC for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:23:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id x1so149404781lbj.3 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:23:29 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJL5O+3ASPcB/oVVADiRbvfWbk3WRYnwO+9m9RVRtGIsfs3p5fZtJWfYHvRe2g5WOHAuftT3sSoCjpViUw== X-Received: by 10.112.163.201 with SMTP id yk9mr2991685lbb.100.1457691809083; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:23:29 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: james@asgrim.com Received: by 10.25.196.214 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:23:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:23:09 +0000 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: To: =?UTF-8?B?SmFrdWIgS3Viw63EjWVr?= Cc: "Colin O'Dell" , PHP Internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01175f8778fb1b052dc35286 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Discussion] "var" Deprecation From: james@asgrim.com (James Titcumb) --089e01175f8778fb1b052dc35286 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11 March 2016 at 10:03, Jakub Kub=C3=AD=C4=8Dek = wrote: > > - `var` can semantically also represent an internal dependency, as I have > described earlier An internal property should be `private`. The use of `var` in the specific project you referenced earlier should only be considered a very, very weak argument for keeping `var`. If it was a de-facto standard in many projects/frameworks/libraries, then maybe it would have a stronger case, but I have never seen `var` used in this way before - it seems like Nette has "invented" a new semantic meaning for their use case. --089e01175f8778fb1b052dc35286--