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[Alan T. Miller]

It could be narrowed to Programmers Helping Programmers. 

Alan

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> Its not Pretty Home Pages? : ^}
> 
> ciao
> yury
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> > full story here:
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040216213026637
> 
> Excellent story...
> 
> When someone asks "what does PHP stand for" you can say that it's a
> recursive acronym:  PHP Helping People
> (this one credited to Gales/Lacey prior post on another list).
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of David Mintz
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:43 PM
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> Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] constants vs globals
>=20
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Hans Zaunere wrote:
>=20
> >
> > > At the PHP conference in New York last spring I remember=20
> someone asked
> > > Rasmus a question: which is more expensive, accessing a
> > > global or defining
> > > a constant? He said without hesitation "defining a constant."
> >
> >
> > At that same conference I chatted with Zeev about this=20
> issue, too.  He
> > concured, and said that defining a constant is more expensive than
> > setting a variable.
> >
> > However, somehow I knew he wasn't telling the whole story,=20
> so I asked
> > why... and why would anyone want a constant, aside from=20
> being static and
> > globally scoped.
> >
> > He said that using constants, once defined, are less expensive than
> > variables.  So I said... "hah, thought you'd say something=20
> like that..."
> > :)
>=20
>=20
> Heh! Which raises the question, then, how many times to you=20
> need to read a
> constant to break even on that up-front expense, as it were,=20
> as compared
> to a variable?

Heh, now that you mention that, I did say ask.  He didn't know - but we
did talk a bit about it and I think I lead the witness to around 4 or 5

H