On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Michael Hawley wrote: > Why must variable names begin with $? I can't see any > real reason, except when signalling a replacement within > a string (e.g., "... $var ..."). The language would be less > cumbersome if the dollar was optional otherwise.
Two letters: HA But to answer your question based on current PHP, non-prefixed variables would conflict with define()d constants, which appear as: $foo = 'abc'.bar; Ken ps: sorry, but... heh... pps: don't use "foo $bar blah" -- use 'foo ' . $bar . ' blah'; or commas:) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
