Re: Re: ctype function (re?)naming

From: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:30:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: ctype function (re?)naming
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> It HAS to be time for a big tidy up, as it is clearly impossible to 'do the > right thing' under current circumstances. Problem is, what you see as "untidy" programmers with a background in other languages and software packages see as "convenient". :-) For every "newbie" it helps to have consistent every_word_gets_an_underscore, you quite simply make it equally hard for an experienced hacker to use PHP. We've been wrangling over this for months, and we *still* don't have concensus, really -- Even among the people who agree that, in theory, a consistent naming scheme (with exceptions) is Good, there isn't concensus on individual cases in reality. I don't think there's been a single proposed name change that hasn't been hotly contested. Maybe it's time to give this up, and move on to other things.

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