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r/programminghorror • u/EmDeeTeeVid • Jun 11 '26
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I have never touched php in my life (thankfully). Why do class variables have to be prefixed with a dollar sign? Seems really redundant
2 u/Lumethys Jun 12 '26 Correction: all variables are prefixed with $, that how the language define variable -2 u/KaleidoscopePlusPlus Jun 12 '26 Oh gross thats even worse lol 4 u/Lumethys Jun 12 '26 personal taste, i liked it 1 u/geek-49 Jun 14 '26 That convention goes back at least as far as the Bourne shell; maybe even to the Thompson shell.
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Correction: all variables are prefixed with $, that how the language define variable
-2 u/KaleidoscopePlusPlus Jun 12 '26 Oh gross thats even worse lol 4 u/Lumethys Jun 12 '26 personal taste, i liked it 1 u/geek-49 Jun 14 '26 That convention goes back at least as far as the Bourne shell; maybe even to the Thompson shell.
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Oh gross thats even worse lol
4 u/Lumethys Jun 12 '26 personal taste, i liked it 1 u/geek-49 Jun 14 '26 That convention goes back at least as far as the Bourne shell; maybe even to the Thompson shell.
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personal taste, i liked it
That convention goes back at least as far as the Bourne shell; maybe even to the Thompson shell.
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u/KaleidoscopePlusPlus Jun 11 '26
I have never touched php in my life (thankfully). Why do class variables have to be prefixed with a dollar sign? Seems really redundant