Re: [PHP-LANG] Re: Legal variable names
[email protected] (Zeev Suraski)
| Newsgroups | php.lang |
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At 18:51 22-11-00, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > Do I understand you correctly that your explanation is > > > "because we can"? > > > > Sascha, > > > > Again, *YES*, unless it's a blunt bug, then 'because we can' is exactly the > > right reasoning. Why is it legal to write a for loop in PHP? I'll tell > > you why, because if you do it, it'll work. That's no different. > > > > > Regardless, the above construct seems to be valid since PHP > > > 3, so it will be part of the specification. > > > > Do you realize that your explanation is identical to that of Andre? :) > > Backwards compatibility vs. engineer's "because we can". > > I don't see how those two criterias are equal. I'd assume that that's exactly what Andre meant... Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/