On 13 Mar 2014, at 20:32, Yasuo Ohgaki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I agree with your argument in general, but restricting pattern will break
> existing scripts which are working now. If
>
> $café !== $café
> 0x63 0x61 0x66 0xC3 0xA9
> 0x63 0x61 0x66 0x65 0xCC 0x81
>
> is issue. It's current issue. Do we really have to care about this and
> introduce BC? It seems documentation would be enough.
Writing programs in other languages is generally bad practise anyway. I don’t think PHP should
encourage it if it will cause problems.
This would introduce BC breaks, yes, but I suppose you could probably write a program to change
identifier names.
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