Re: Why $ on variable names?
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:40:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why $ on variable names? | ||
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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 02:35, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> I'm just guessing here. For one thing, to seperate variables from
> constants. Also, it makes it possible to use variables within quotes.
Yup. So you can have:
print "I'm a $variable";
instead of the messy javascript way:
alert("I'm a " . $variable);
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