Re: ctype function (re?)naming
| From: | Zak Greant | Date: | Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:05:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ctype function (re?)naming | ||
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Phil wrote:
> Prodigious work Zak - well done. This certainly represents a useful
> initial tidy up. It doesn't break anything and cures many of the
> 'bad offenders'.
Thanks Phil - I expect that closer examination will reveal how sloppy it is!
:)
> In looking through the unchanged function names, the one that screamed 'I
> am wrong' most loudly was 'velocis_off_autocommit' which appears to set
> new standards in unusual word order :)
Point in case. ;) I must admit that this is *quite* odd and should be
fixed.
> As you may have gathered from my previous posts on the subject, I want to
> aim much higher than this, but as I gather from everyone else's posts, I'm
> in a small minority. I see no reason for the syntax of PHP being any less
> than 'very good indeed', so if anyone else is in that minority, without
> detracting from the work that Zak has proposed, can we keep this
> discussion thread alive because I'm sure that there must be a way of
> bolting a clean version of the language onto the existing engine, and
surely PHP
> 5.0 is the landmark for it's introduction.
I also believe that PHP should be very much cleaner than it is now. However,
I am going keep my opinions to myself 'til the basic renaming stuff is
sorted out!!!!
--zak