Re: [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Bob Weinand wrote: > >> I have started the vote for extended keyword support RFC: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/keywords_as_identifiers > > Just to explain why I voted "no". I think the idea is good, but what I > see from the patch is that it adds a *lot* of hand written state > machines which are going to be a pain to maintain. I do not think this > extra maintenance is worth the features - we've done pretty well without > it. I did not vote yet, however I agree with Derick. A cleaner solution would be better. We have lived with this restriction for some time already and we may as well delay this RFC until we have a viable technical solution. If anyone feels motivated enough to implement the parser/lexer using other tools :) -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org