On 5/31/2016 6:39 PM, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > Hi Richard, > > $this is still confirm to variable syntax. It's just a special variable. > I think, we should keep lexical rules unchanged. >
The page is about user assignable variable names. If I understand it correct we cannot to the following anymore in userland: $this = 'my value'; Hence `$this` is correct to lexical rules but not in the context of variables that I can use to assign something too. Hence the change of the manual page. I did not say anything about lexical changes. Note well that the above is already not possible in many situations: php -r '$this = "my value";' Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in Command line code on line 1 TL;DR $this does conform to syntax but not to basic PHP userland rules for variable naming (what the manual page is about). -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
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