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Posted by Tony Marston on 11/01/07 11:54
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> "Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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>>>> All you are doing, yet again, is identifying that the use of different
>>>> case was only introduced as a programmer convention in those languages
>>>> which make it difficult to differentiate between variables, constants,
>>>> functions and methods. Decent languages do not have such a problem, yet
>>>> you insist on making a programmer convention in one particular language
>>>> a requirement in all other languages for no good reason.
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>>> Frankly, I find it a pain in the ass to have to prepend a blankety-blank
>>> "$" in fron of my variables. Why couldn't this language (PHP) be smart
>>> enough to know that what is on the left hand side is a variable?
>>> However, I accepted is a being part of the language and moved on --
>>> rather than rant about it. If I want a constant, I can write it all in
>>> caps. (so much for languages that can "differentiate between a
>>> variable, etc.").
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>> I prefer the PHP way. I have no problem with using foo, $foo, foo() and
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> You said it all right here - **YOU** prefer it that way, ergo that it the
> right way! Talk about trying to impose your preferences on the entire
> community!
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> Frankly, there is no reason why the computer could not know which is which
> simply by either having a declaration or by its first usage. There is no
> real need for the dollar sign. My guess is that it was put in for
> readability and identification. Gee, that is the same reason as case
> sensitivity.
I disagree. I *MUCH* prefer to see foo, $foo, foo() and $object->foo() to
differentiate between constants, variables, functions and methods than a
slight alteration in case. So do the authors of PHP, ad its millions of
users.
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Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
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