Re: PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:34:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP6, Unicode for language functions, classes, methods, vars names | ||
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> What do you mean? Why wouldn't it be portable?
Well, for one thing code written to use unicode identifiers will
immediately be limited to running on PHP 6 installs. While code using
ASCII identifier with standard "compat" layer could run just fine.
Another reason to only allow ASCII is that now code can be read by
anyone rather then just the people who are familiar with the particular
language user. Heck, some editors do not even allow utf-8 or properly
render some high-ascii chars making those scripts difficult if not
impossible to edit.
Ilia