Re: Re: What is a label?

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On 13 Jul 2011 at 22:39, Micky Hulse <rgmicky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> They must mean labels as in "general naming convention rules for
> programming"... Like not naming a variable/function "label" with a number at
> the front.
>
> Here's a page about variables:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.basics.php
>
> Variable names follow the same rules as other labels in PHP. A valid
> variable name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any
> number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression,
> it would be expressed thus: '[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*'

Except that variables are case-sensitive whereas function names are not. And if there's going to be a formal or "programmatic" definition, then I think I'd prefer BNF to a regexp.

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