Re: [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers

From: Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:35:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] [Vote] Keywords as identifiers
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Hello there! I just recently joined the mailing list - what is this vote about? Kind regards, Kevin Ingwersen Am 24.10.2013 um 15:37 schrieb Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > >>>> 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...) >> >> I think the point that Derick is trying to make, and that I agree with - >> is that if there's no better way to implement it we shouldn't be >> implementing it at all. In other words, coming up with a clean >> implementation is a requirement before we can go ahead and introduce this >> feature into the language. I did not mean to imply you did a poor job >> implementing it, I don't presently have an idea of how to make it better. >> > > I'm all +1 with that. > > Don't forget that we have been leaving with those reserved keyword for ~15y > now, and just right. > I don't think we should hurry on such a feature adding so much complicated > stuff, especially to the lexer. > > Julien.Pauli

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