Tidying up the language

In the light of Zend's proposal for a version 2 of the Zend Engine, now is probably a good time to discuss whether we can and/or should use the opportunity to also tidy up the language along the lines we discussed on this list a few months ago namely: Make function names case sensitive (and all lower case) Rename functions to make them consistent Address the order of arguments to functions so that needles and haystacks are consistent (searching for 'renaming' in the QA archive will get you to most of the previous discussion) A general concensus was not reached last time around, but I'm pretty sure that a majority of those who joined in the discussion thought it was a good idea to do at least some of the above. My own thoughts on the timing of such an effort are that if the version 2 Zend engine warrants a version 5 of PHP then we should make the effort and do something to synchronise with the release of the new engine, so that all the major changes happen together. If the new engine only causes the PHP version number to go to 4.1 then I don't think we should introduce a language cleanup at this point, although I do think we should be working on it. Rather than start near infinite threads on the nitty gritty details of what and how to change things, can we first establish a concensus on whether to have a go now or later, and see if we have enough people prepared to put in the hours. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll