From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T05:02:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:19:20PM +0900, 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".

I'd say that PHP should have taken a hint from environment variables if
it wanted to use those sigils more effectively -- by not using them
except in certain cases where they are being interpolated.  They're just
line noise *most of the time* in PHP.

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