Thanks for all the replies.
I just seemed to me that to add $ everywhere was more work (and not as
aesthetic as a plain word) than using some other syntax for print. But, in
fact, it could have been designed so you could still use
print "I'm a $variable";
without the use of $ in other uses of the variable (like in assignments and
references to it), right? Rhetorical question.
(Just an initial impression of PHP)...
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@;gremlins.com.hk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Why $ on variable names?
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 02:35, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> I'm just guessing here. For one thing, to seperate variables from
> constants. Also, it makes it possible to use variables within quotes.
Yup. So you can have:
print "I'm a $variable";
instead of the messy javascript way:
alert("I'm a " . $variable);
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