> I posted four suggestions earlier, > > They were: > > @ > & > * > ^ > > My favourites are the asterisk or caret.
That’s no different than `@` being invalid because it’s already in use. $ php -a Interactive shell php > define('a', 1); php > define('b', 2); php > echo @a . "\n"; 1 php > echo (a&b) . "\n"; 0 php > echo (a*b) . "\n"; 2 php > echo (a^b) . "\n"; 3 php > However: `☃` has a long history of being available to PHP. S -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php