Re: Re: constant name

Derick Rethans wrote:

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mehdi Achour wrote:

Should I change the documentation to say that ".*" can be a constant name, but that we recommand [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]* ?

Just leave it as is.

I wanted to complete the TODO commented on languages/constants.xml (Example of valid & invalid constant names) But anyway...

Derick

Mehdi Achour wrote:

Hi ! The manual reads : "The name of a constant follows the same rules as any label in PHP. A valid constant name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it would be expressed thusly: '[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]'" I know that this is true when trying to echo a constant directly, as the parser raise an error, but you can trick it with a constant() call : <?php define(' (\ /) {°_°) () () ( )( ) ', 'barfoo'); echo constant(' (\ /) {°_°) () () ( )( ) ') . chr(10); // outputs : bar Is it a feature or a bug ? :) Mehdi Achour