Re: Legal variable names

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, André Langhorst wrote:

> > That's what I was asking. I just am rather careful there because somebody
> > wrote that code so he should have meant something by it - maybe there are
> > reasons I'm not aware of.
>
> well as discussed before this code is an relict from register_globals=on
>
> >     With regard to php-lang, are there any opinions on whether
> >     a construct like this should be legal?
> >
> >         '${' expression '}'
> >
> >     where expression evaluates to an arbitrary string, not
> >     necessarily to an identifier (which is basically
> >     [a-z][a-z0-9]*).
>
> why not? you can even use ä,ü,ö without using ${' äöü '}, should these
> be legal - let the user decide how to write his code

    Do I understand you correctly that your explanation is
    "because we can"?

    Regardless, the above construct seems to be valid since PHP
    3, so it will be part of the specification.

    - Sascha