RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:54:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:12 PM
> To: Bob Weinand
> Cc: Developers Mailing List PHP
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers
>
> 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.
Thumbs up for the idea as well, but I don't think we can live with the
implementation. BTW, that's a bit of a grey area but I think that even if
an idea is accepted, if there's no reasonably clean implementation
available for it, I don't think it can go in.
Zeev