Re: Lexical scoping

From:	Andrea Faulds	Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:11:48 +0000
Subject:	Re: Lexical scoping
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On 28/01/14 16:28, Sara Golemon wrote:
Figure out how that looks to the runtime and we can start a
conversation.  Until then, you're asking for something that PHP's
engine is ill-equipped to introduce.

Is that really the case? If we don't permit variable shadowing here (i.e. you cannot do "$var = x; { let $var = y; } var_dump($var);"), then it would be as simple internally as unsetting the variable at the end of the block.
-- 
Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/


   

Thread (11 messages)

• Andrea FauldsTue, 28 Jan 2014 10:01:21 +0000
  • Sebastian KrebsTue, 28 Jan 2014 12:31:30 +0000
    • Lazare InepologlouTue, 28 Jan 2014 13:25:23 +0000
      • Christian StollerTue, 28 Jan 2014 13:33:42 +0000RE: [PHP-DEV] Lexical scoping
      • George BondTue, 28 Jan 2014 13:36:34 +0000
        • Andrea FauldsTue, 28 Jan 2014 16:07:57 +0000
      • Sebastian KrebsTue, 28 Jan 2014 14:05:22 +0000
    • Andrea FauldsTue, 28 Jan 2014 16:06:01 +0000
      • Sebastian KrebsWed, 29 Jan 2014 11:11:03 +0000
  • Stas MalyshevWed, 29 Jan 2014 08:40:41 +0000