Re: Support for keywords where possible

From: Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:08:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Support for keywords where possible
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On Sep 18, 2013 10:53 AM, "Daniel Convissor" <
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>
> Hi Bob:
>
> > It's now only for class/interface/trait, label and method names.
>
> Sure, that's not as bad.
>
> A bigger concern of mine is the added compatibility problem with new
> code possibly not being able to run on older PHP versions.  That cost
> seems greater than the benefit of some developers being able to call
> $o->default() instead of $o->get_default().
>
> Thanks for your consideration,

Well, it is a good point but impossible to keep without killing any future
language improvements. Think of generators f.e.


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