Re: PHP6 OOP compiler feature question / request

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Sean Coates wrote: >> In any event, I'm just trying to indicate that others may also face >> issues if they have PHP4 apps with these sorts of keywords in them. > > "try" has been a reserved word (documented) since Fri Oct 1 08:07:16 > 2004 UTC: > > http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/phpdoc/en/appendices/reserved.xml?view=diff&r1=1.48&r2=1.49 > > See: > http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.php > (which admittedly needs work) > > "You cannot use any of the following words as constants, class names, > function or method names." > > I do understand the original question, and I supposed it IS technically > possible to determine the context of a T_TRY token, but nonetheless, > it's bad practice to have functions named the same as reserved words > (even where allowed). This application was developed in 2001, at which point 'try' was not a keyword and the original developers of the app had no idea it was to become one. I'm sure there are many others out there in the same boat. Jasper -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEY5fqFfAeHhDzT4gRA++8AKCSDqC+dORY7YD+G8ouxboGwXtigwCdGIrF H6Yz6oBt9QqeKd5Z7d33DKg= =zcoJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----