On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Mike Potter wrote:
> sense to me that this "feature" get another look. I can see no logical
> reason to not allow . in the global $_POST variable...
> Basically, what I'd like is to be able to post a form element with
> id="myvariable.whatever" and access it on the next page with
> $_POST["myvariable.whatever"].
Here's just one of many good reasons ...
// obviously this is some busted garbage
$name.Array["first"]="Chris";
$name.Array["last"]="Wesley";
$name=$name.Array["first"]." ".$name.Array["last"];
// and this is not
$name_Array["first"]="Chris";
$name_Array["last"]="Wesley";
$name=$name_Array["first"]." ".$name_Array["last"];
You'd make both your Lex and your Yacc puke while parsing the first one ;)
~Chris
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