Re: Re: Legal variable names

From:	Zeev Suraski	Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:50:13 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Legal variable names
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At 18:51 22-11-00, 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.

I'd assume that that's exactly what Andre meant... Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/