Re: Support for keywords where possible
| From: | Lazare Inepologlou | Date: | Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:43:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Support for keywords where possible | ||
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2013/9/11 Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com>
> Hi!
>
> I tried to widen the naming possibilities by allowing to use keywords as
> identifiers (for function names, class names, label (goto) names, ...)
> where possible. It doesn't break any BC.
>
> Furthermore when BC needs to be broken in future for new keywords, it will
> have a smaller impact as most usages of the new keyword then still work.
>
> It also prevents unnecessary workarounds like in
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params#syntax. There, to address
> a
> function with a parameter called $array, we could simply write func(array
> => $value); instead of the until now necessary func("array" => value);
>
> You can find the patch here:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/438
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
>
>
I like it! I always hated the fact that "list" is a reserved word.
Lazare INEPOLOGLOU
Ingénieur Logiciel