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Re:PHP best practices - The dos and don'ts by randallsquared on Saturday January 05, 2008 @01:50PM (#95171)
In PHP it hardly matters, since variables have their own namespace. PHP is a lisp2.
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Re:PHP best practices - The dos and don'ts by SwellJoe on Saturday January 05, 2008 @07:03PM (#95205)
It might matter to the human reading the code.
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Re:PHP best practices - The dos and don'ts by randallsquared on Sunday January 06, 2008 @12:04PM (#95356)
Well, sure, but that cuts both ways. :) It's convenient to have names like $bool and $int for didactic purposes, at least.
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