On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mehdi Achour wrote:
> Should I change the documentation to say that ".*" can be a constant name, but
> that we recommand [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]* ?
Just leave it as is.
Derick
> Mehdi Achour wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > The manual reads :
> >
> > "The name of a constant follows the same rules as any label in PHP. A
> > valid constant name starts with a letter or underscore, followed
> > by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular
> > expression, it would be expressed thusly:
> > '[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]'"
> >
> >
> > I know that this is true when trying to echo a constant directly, as the
> > parser raise an error, but you can trick it with a constant() call :
> >
> > <?php
> >
> > define('
> > (\ /)
> > {°_°)
> > () ()
> > ( )( )
> > ', 'barfoo');
> >
> > echo constant('
> > (\ /)
> > {°_°)
> > () ()
> > ( )( )
> > ') . chr(10); // outputs : bar
> >
> > Is it a feature or a bug ? :)
> >
> > Mehdi Achour
>
>
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