Posted by Shelly on 07/31/06 11:04

"Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> 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.

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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