From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T23:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP


On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:19 AM, Julian Tarkhanov wrote:

>
> 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 $variable inside".
>
> -- 
> Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov
> please send all personal mail to
> me at julik.nl
>
>
>
That's fine to use a sigil some opening-closing delimiters with  
interpolated identifiers. But in any other case? Useless, unless you  
want to identify it as a special type of object of variable. '$' is  
way over used.