Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Jack Timmons
lish, and you want it changed so you "don't have to hear about it constantly". The fact is, it says "double colon" in a different language, so aside from translation there's nothing wrong with it at all. Magic would be internationalizing the error messages, b

Re: [PHP-DEV] rename T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to T_DOUBLE_COLON

2010-10-30 Thread Jack Timmons
x27;d rather be told than find out for themselves. And, when they find out, the answer is usually something like "Oh, neat." And, what sort of cooperation do you expect to get when your first line is "WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?". That's akin to finding multiple language

Re: [PHP-DEV] Dots and spaces in variable names are converted to underscores.

2010-01-21 Thread Jack Timmons
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > -1 from me. > I don't think we need to keep backward compatibility for this. PHP-6 is a > major release, after all. > > It would be absolutely enough to add optional var-name conversion to extract() Agreed.