Hi Richard, $this is still confirm to variable syntax. It's just a special variable. I think, we should keep lexical rules unchanged.
Thanks. Dmitry. ________________________________________ From: Fleshgrinder <p...@fleshgrinder.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 7:19:57 PM To: Dmitry Stogov; internals; Nikita Popov Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Fix inconsistent behavior of $this variable On 5/23/2016 10:24 PM, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/this_var > Hi Dmitry, could you extend the RFC with an additional section that mentions to update corresponding manual pages, e.g.: https://secure.php.net/language.variables.basics There is a regular expression on that page that looks like the following and is often referred to by people explaining variable names in PHP: [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]* I would propose to update this to the following more complete PCRE: /^\$?(?!this)[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*$/D @nikic this is also important for your RFC regarding empty variable names because the PCRE would need to be updated once more too: /^\$?(?!this)[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff]?[a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*$/D Of course the sentence preceding the regular expression would also require an update. There might be more pages that I am not aware of but we could ask someone from the documentation team to help us here. The above one is definitely the most important one and it should imho be included in the RFC. -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
