Re: [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers

Am 22.10.2013 um 12:54 schrieb "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com>: >> -----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 As said, if anyone has a good idea how to improve the implementation, I'd be happy to implement it. (I really can't imagine a better way...) Bob Weinand (Btw. Is my implementation so bad? I think it looks far worse than it is in reality...)