Req #54325 [NEW]: Support variable names without dollar sign

From: Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:11:14 +0000
Subject: Req #54325 [NEW]: Support variable names without dollar sign
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Operating system: 
PHP version:      5.3.6
Package:          *General Issues
Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
Bug description:Support variable names without dollar sign

Description:
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I believe the dollar sign in variable names to be a waste of precious
keystrokes, 
and I would boldly suggest the requirement that variable names be prefixed
with a 
dollar sign is removed. 

Currently, undefined literals are interpreted as strings (with a "Notice"
fired). 
This is a hardly useful feature, as most useful strings will contain
spaces. A 
better use of such tokens would be to interpret them as variables.

If this feature would not be seriously considered, I would appreciate any
pointers 
into the relevant source code location(s) that needs to be modified to
implement 
this feature.

Thanks,
AhmetSacan.


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Fixed in SVN:                        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=fixed
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Fixed in release:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=support
Expected behavior:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54325&r=mysqlcfg

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