Legal variable names
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:49:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Legal variable names | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.lang |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> AL>> you don't hinder me doing ${' asdf asdlkfj'}=5; so why should you
> AL>> strip
> AL>> leading spaces?
>
> That's what I was asking. I just am rather careful there because somebody
> wrote that code so he should have meant something by it - maybe there are
> reasons I'm not aware of.
With regard to php-lang, are there any opinions on whether
a construct like this should be legal?
'${' expression '}'
where expression evaluates to an arbitrary string, not
necessarily to an identifier (which is basically
[a-z][a-z0-9]*).
- Sascha