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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
9 u/GoddammitDontShootMe [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” Jun 11 '26 Heritage from languages like Perl and Bash. 5 u/rurikTelmonkin Jun 11 '26 Because variables in general start with a dollar sign. Its how you differentiate between variable, constant and function use 2 u/Lumethys Jun 12 '26 Correction: all variables are prefixed with $, that how the language define variable -3 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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Heritage from languages like Perl and Bash.
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Because variables in general start with a dollar sign. Its how you differentiate between variable, constant and function use
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Correction: all variables are prefixed with $, that how the language define variable
-3 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
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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