Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0.0 Release packaged

I should ask for pardon on this one, and explain what exactly I meant. I can see now that this was not a good example... I haven't noticed the poster _asked_ for a link. The point was, there _are_ free compilers on win32 platform. I haven't used them, but was told they work. Mingw32 e. g. I would expect PHP developers would lean toward such tools. Rasmus, I certainly don't want to piss of anyone, and I managed to do so with many people so far. This thread should really be ended and forgotten, because neither side of this fight (it has little to nothing of a discussion, I think) is able/willing or whatever it is to understand or rather grok the other side point of view. The sorry part is that it seems to be biased by interpersonal stuff between Manuel Lemos and some other people. Finished and forgotten. To move on to something a lot more productive, there was recently a discussion about function names. I said I thought PHP should have more uniform function naming scheme. I guess it was Zeev who gave +1 to the idea of aliases for functions like nl2br and such. I would like to participate in this. Could we start another thread on this? There should be a public 'policy' for this available on the PHP site, I guess (or someone would have to go through all newly added functions, and check the function names), and a very straight one, I guess. That way the new function would be appropriately named, so we would need to alias only those of the old ones that don't comply with such a policy. I think this deserves more attention. ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz ICQ: 2808 2505