From: Julian Tarkhanov <listbox@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T15:19:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP


On 2-okt-2007, at 5:27, John Joyce wrote:

> But yes, critically, the worst thing about PHP sigils is how  
> useless they are. They're just noise!

Not exactly. Because PHP is so intimate with spitting text at people,  
the sigils serve as a helper for string interpolation,
because you can make "a literal string with a $variable inside".

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