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

Greg Beaver wrote: > 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 > > This would also eliminate constants from PHP, as currently they are > T_STRING and variables would become T_STRING. Not a good idea. > > <?php > define('oops', 1); > $oops = 2; > echo $oops,' ',oops; > ?> From my point of view, it's not a good idea to have classes, functions, constants and variables with the same "conflicting" names (PHP way). Anyway, I'm not going to change it. Thanks. Dmitry.