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Request #54325 Support variable names without dollar sign
Submitted: 2011-03-20 18:11 UTC Modified: 2011-04-04 04:56 UTC
From: ahmetdevel at umich dot edu Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.3.6 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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Further comment on this bug is unnecessary.

 

 [2011-03-20 18:11 UTC] ahmetdevel at umich dot edu
Description:
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I believe the dollar sign in variable names to be a waste of precious keystrokes, 
and I would boldly suggest the requirement that variable names be prefixed with a 
dollar sign is removed. 

Currently, undefined literals are interpreted as strings (with a "Notice" fired). 
This is a hardly useful feature, as most useful strings will contain spaces. A 
better use of such tokens would be to interpret them as variables.

If this feature would not be seriously considered, I would appreciate any pointers 
into the relevant source code location(s) that needs to be modified to implement 
this feature.

Thanks,
AhmetSacan.


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 [2011-03-21 00:01 UTC] rasmus@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-03-21 00:01 UTC] rasmus@php.net
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 [2011-03-21 00:51 UTC] bmajdak@php.net
at first i was like :(
but then i was like LOL.
 [2011-03-25 12:51 UTC] anon at anon dot com
Literally lol'd.
 [2011-03-25 20:45 UTC] at_dot at dot_at dot com
Please keep this request online or archive it somewhere! Love it!
 [2011-04-01 14:43 UTC] emclaughlin at svmsolutions dot com
Keystrokes precious?  We've got some dwindling resources in this world, but 
keystrokes ain't one of them.
 [2011-04-01 16:01 UTC] robert dot e dot rouse at gmail dot com
@emclaughlin

Yeah, we're talking about dollar signs, not parenthesis.
 [2011-04-04 04:56 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Block user comment: No +Block user comment: Yes
 
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