rfc: get rid of the mandatory dollar sign

How about.............. no.
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/aKzPQgW_460sa.gif

Still funny, but that troll has been played before. I don't think anyone's
suggested the Euro yet though, maybe go for that next time.

make all dollar sign usage optional except in double quoted strings and
when calling calling functions by variable.

relevant:

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1ltulg/what_single_feature_do_you_want_to_see_added_to/cc2t7eu

Still funny, but that troll has been played before. I don't think anyone's
suggested the Euro yet though, maybe go for that next time.

make all dollar sign usage optional except in double quoted strings and
when calling calling functions by variable.

relevant:

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1ltulg/what_single_feature_do_you_want_to_see_added_to/cc2t7eu

What about £ or Ψ?

I'd really like that the last one in PHP 6 if it's not possible in 5.6.

Thanks

Florin Patan
https://github.com/dlsniper
http://www.linkedin.com/in/florinpatan

2013/9/7 Sara Golemon pollita@php.net

Still funny, but that troll has been played before. I don't think anyone's
suggested the Euro yet though, maybe go for that next time.

I think it is about time we get rid of the dollar sigil too; I
personally suggest something in plain ASCII like "kr" (Kroner):

krkr = 10; // 10 kroner!
kr{''} = "\0"; // Empty variable with nul value

We still have the collision with constant and function lookups, but we
all know how variable our currency is so nobody would bother
"prefixing" any of those with kr.

TL;DR, I need sleep :(

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regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net