Re: Why $ on variable names?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:40:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why $ on variable names? | ||
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So you can put variables inside quoted strings.
Without $ how would this work?
price = 9.95;
echo "The price is price";
It also means you can have variables that are the same name as function
names.
-Rasmus
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, brucedickey wrote:
> I've searched, but haven't found the answer -- from a language design point
> of view, why are there $ on the front of PHP variable names?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
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