Re: Constants in double-quoted strings

Josh wrote: > Dave, how is a variable name any less a bareword than a constant name? > A bareword (in my opinion) is a word without a sigil (e.g. a leading $), so the way that you would write a constant normally in PHP. What I was trying to say is that having bareword-style interpolation ("{MYCONST}") is much more likely to break BC than the "{#MYCONST}" style. > Thats what the backets were for, perhaps combined with a symbol to > make it even less likely, and of course if the constant is not found > in the symbol table, the constant name would be outputted directly. > But would it raise a warning, as PHP currently does for unrecognised constants? If not, it could be argued that this would make subtle typos harder to spot. Dave