marius popa wrote:
I was looking at the examples used in php.js library
http://phpjs.org/functions/index
and it struck me that is cleaner to read the functions and code without the
$ names in it
From what i understand $ in front of variables is an Perl legacy
And how do you propose to do string interpolation?
echo "This is a $var in a string";
or:
echo <<<EOB
This is a $var in a heredoc
EOB;
This is the heart and soul of PHP which isn't possible without a way to
identify a variable. I suppose you could argue that you would have two
ways to indicate a variable, $var for interpolation and var without, but
that gets even messier. One consistent way is cleaner.
-Rasmus
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