Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:04 AM, William Allen > Simpson<william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure that would actually be parsed. And I'm no fan of leading $, >> left over from the variety in PERL. >> >> PHP isn't a model syntax that we should employ. > > Didn't the Bourne shell use a $ prefix for all variables, a decade > before Perl existed? > Not sure, as I've been using Unix since late 1977, so my fingers mostly remember csh. The $ is something like "contents of variable".
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