Re: php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc

marius popa wrote:

I was looking at the examples used in php.js library http://phpjs.org/functions/index and it struck me that is cleaner to read the functions and code without the $ names in it

From what i understand $ in front of variables is an Perl legacy

And how do you propose to do string interpolation? echo "This is a $var in a string"; or: echo <<<EOB This is a $var in a heredoc EOB; This is the heart and soul of PHP which isn't possible without a way to identify a variable. I suppose you could argue that you would have two ways to indicate a variable, $var for interpolation and var without, but that gets even messier. One consistent way is cleaner. -Rasmus