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

Marcus Boerger kirjoitti:

Hello Ionut, a Friend suggested to replace it with a Euro sign, so that PHP code gets worth more :-)

Hey, why not make it configurable (ini option) ?! :D --Jani

marcus Thursday, September 18, 2008, 8:30:37 PM, you wrote:

Actually, I somehow understand what he wants, considering we'll soon have lambdas and closures. I mean, in case of javascript a variable can hold as well a function as it can hold anything else. Anyway, I don't think this is the case for PHP. I do find it ugly to write $function(), but I guess I'll live with it as I did until now.

Cheers, I. Stan

----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Moon <brianm@dealnews.com> To: mike <mike503@gmail.com> Cc: marius popa <mapopa@gmail.com>; internals@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:06:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php7- dropping the $ from the variable name - rfc

mike wrote:

Personally I love the $. It makes it so much easier to identify variables. It's a single character. Can't see the need honestly to even bring this up.

+1,000,000. Horrible idea. *facepalm*

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Best regards, Marcus