> It violates the "I don't need to look inside comments for sources of bugs" rule I'm quite fond of. I second that. A practical explanation of why this is dumb

> It violates the "I don't need to look inside comments for sources of bugs" rule I'm quite fond of. I second that. A practical explanation of why this is dumb idea. I get it, PHP is about getting stuff done. But why insisting on bad ideas, when PHP already has lots of them.