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Re: $-sign in form input names?

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On 11/4/2014 5:46 PM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I understand that, also.  I've been using PHP since 3.something.
> 
> Lucky me.  I can't even image how PHP has looked before 4.3.0,
> considering, for instance, that objects had value semantics before 5.0.0.
> 
>> But I also have extensive experience in parsing strings, which comes
>> from over 45 years of programming experience.  I also have extensive
>> experience in running benchmarks.  Anyone knowledgeable in benchmarking
>> would see all kinds of holes.
> 
> Then it might have been better if *you* had implemented the new PHP 7
> AST based parser[1] instead of Nikita.  Especially his assessment
> regarding "Impact on performance and memory usage" might be plain wrong. ;)
>

Perhaps.  But I'm not in the habit of providing free support to
commercial enterprises (although I do contribute to non-commercial
enterprises and open source packages).  If there really is a difference,
it is in the poor implementation of single quotes parsing.

But the web page you cited has unsupportable statements, for the reasons
I mentioned.

>> There is a lot of information on the internet.  And quite a bit of it is
>> wrong.
> 
> ACK.
> 
> [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abstract_syntax_tree>
> [2]
> <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/abstract_syntax_tree#impact_on_performance_and_memory_usage>
> 

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$-sign in form input names? sonnichjensen@gmail.com - 2014-11-03 07:23 -0800
  Re: $-sign in form input names? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-11-03 15:54 +0000
  Re: $-sign in form input names? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-04 01:02 +0000
    Re: $-sign in form input names? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-11-04 06:55 +0100
      Re: $-sign in form input names? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-04 10:17 +0100
        Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 09:23 -0500
          Re: $-sign in form input names? gordonb.2w35u@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2014-11-04 09:35 -0600
            Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 10:37 -0500
          Re: $-sign in form input names? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-04 21:42 +0100
            Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 17:01 -0500
              Re: $-sign in form input names? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-04 23:46 +0100
                Re: $-sign in form input names? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-11-04 21:19 -0500
        Re: $-sign in form input names? Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com> - 2014-11-04 09:31 -0500

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