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

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote: > Hannes Magnusson wrote: >> I totally agree. Its really annoying needing to type $ all the time, >> not to mention how hard it is on Norwegian keyboards. Lets replace it >> with £ ! > > Like most programming languages PHP is optimized for American keyboard > layout, deal with it! > > Fx. I especially like the placement of the MySQL escape character ` on > Nordic keyboards: press Alt-gr and |, release them and then press space. > >> There is even a "patch" available: >> http://php.markmail.org/message/jsex75rowudeu2nr > > Way to go, lets make a port of all major programming languages, to all > keyboard layouts. ;-) > Those of use who use non-latin based languages in a better position - need to learn a new layout, the US one. Even in Bulgaria althought there is a national standard for a keyboard layout second one emerged during the years which is based on a transliteration of QWERTY. However, using the QWERTY layout one is slower compared to the case when using the national standard. OTOH, layout switching is pretty easy nowadays, you might install a qwerty layout for programming (/me has nowadays US, DE and BG installed to handle all the communities I am involved in :) Best, Andrey -- Andrey Hristov, Connectors Software Developer, Database Group Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering