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

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jordan Moore <jordanryanmoore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Brian Moon <brianm@dealnews.com> wrote: >> 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* >> >> -- >> >> Brian Moon >> Senior Web Engineer >> ------------------------------ >> When you care enough to spend the very least. >> http://dealnews.com/ >> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > I'm unsure how the parser works, so ignoring those potential issues, > this change would... > > 1. Break every single PHP script that is currently in existence. maybe an legacy mode can be included in ini > > 2. Break syntax highlighting (and probably other tools/functions) for > every IDE that is currently in existence. this can be fixed by each ide , I talk about something like > > I'm not sure that much more needs to be said. I can give another practical example in wxjscript from this javascript example that can be run on apache server you can see that is simpler to read and to learn at least for an beginner http://www.wxjavascript.net/mysql/index.html What i want to say is that php must go forward and yes you can change/break things in the engine like in the php 4 to php 5 migration or php5 to php6 In time maybe an fast javascript engine could replace php if it doesn't change in the right direction or it goes to java bloatware way > > -- > Jordan Ryan Moore > -- developer flamerobin.org