RE: [PHP] Curio
| From: | Jay Blanchard | Date: | Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:31:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Curio | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Just a question out of curiousity for the language lawyers out there.
Why is
it illegal to begin a variable name with a number in php?
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This is fairly standard in programming languages. Years ago (sometime in
the 70's) the reasoning was given to me, but I have long since replaced
the data at that address with some other, probably trivial, fact. I
tried a quick Google, but no joy.