Re: Re: Legal variable names

At 17:51 22/11/00 +0100, Sascha Schumann wrote:

    Do I understand you correctly that your explanation is
    "because we can"?

Sascha, Again, *YES*, unless it's a blunt bug, then 'because we can' is exactly the right reasoning. Why is it legal to write a for loop in PHP? I'll tell you why, because if you do it, it'll work. That's no different.

Regardless, the above construct seems to be valid since PHP

    3, so it will be part of the specification.

Do you realize that your explanation is identical to that of Andre? :)

    Backwards compatibility vs. engineer's "because we can".

    I don't see how those two criterias are equal.

Let's not make an issue out of it :) I think the "because we can" was meant in a similar way as backwards compatibility. Then again I didn't write it. Andi --- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/