Re: [PHP-DEV] Variable Scope

[LingWitt]

Actually, with a careful implementation, backwards compatibility can be 
achieved. A separate symbol table, indeed I agree, would be 
undesirable. Instead, the interpreter could simply mask the other 
variables of the same name during the loop, and return things to normal 
afterward.

P.S.
Consider the issue dead.
On Saturday, Aug 30, 2003, at 15:25 America/New_York, Ilia Alshanetsky 
wrote:

PHP has worked like this for years and people were & are happy with 
it. Even
if you somehow were able to convince (which is not happening) that this
change is useful, it still would not happen. A major functionality 
change
such as this would break backwards compatibility and render vast 
majority of
existing PHP code inoperable. If you absolutely need such a 
functionality,
either switch to a different language or customize your copy of PHP as
suggested by DvDmanDT.

Ilia

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