Re: Tidying up the language

Hi guys, I agree that, given a new Zend engine, it is the best of times to rework the language. I think Phil is right in pointing out that all functions/extensions need to be implemented along standardised lines. It would be best if, once there is concensus on such a frame work, it were set in (relatively firm) concrete so that extensions which people work on between now and the function-standardised-tidy-php-with-Zend2 release work, at least for users, with the said release. This will ensure that even though there will be many a script in ruin, it will be minimalised. On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote: > > >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 > > Adding these to the BBC-TODO: > > - Remove all BC aliases for functions. If we're breaking BC, break it hard. Perhaps we could provide a script to translate previously aliased functions to the correct equivalent. No reason why it couldn't be done for sed (except that we'll have cranky windows users). > > >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. > Count me in. Gavin