From a15274f4d1d85a1c9e28cac42a9fd3cd78d134fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mehdi Achour <didou@php.net>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 04:55:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added an example about valid and invalid constant names # but
 every name is valid in fact..

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@159220 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/constants.xml | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/language/constants.xml b/language/constants.xml
index ae6e3e2619..e0e9507e3b 100644
--- a/language/constants.xml
+++ b/language/constants.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.35 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.36 $ -->
  <chapter id="language.constants">
   <title>Constants</title>
 
@@ -17,8 +17,31 @@
    by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular
    expression, it would be expressed thusly:
    <literal>[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*</literal>
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   <example>
+    <title>Valid and invalid constant names</title>
+    <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
 
-   <!-- TODO: Example of valid & invalid constant names -->
+// Valid constant names
+define("foo",     "something");
+define("foo2",    "something else");
+define("foo_bar", "something more")
+
+// Invalid constant names
+define("2foo",    "something");
+
+// This is valid, but should be avoided:
+// PHP may one day provide a magical constant
+// that will break your script
+define("__foo__", "something"); 
+
+?>
+]]>
+    </programlisting>
+   </example>
   </para>
   <note>
    <simpara>