Re: Woah

At 06:30 08-09-01, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

Quoting Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com>: So let's be the first ones to get our heads on straight and get rid of this ridiculous concept. It is, IMHO, one of the worst ideas in the history of the world...I'd really rather be reading perl regular expressions than this. I know that backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass, but you might want to consider that this has been around ever since the gettext extension was introduced, before launching the next crusade.

We have more or less of a standard procedure to handle this sort of things in PHP. Step #1 is to remove it from the documentation completely. Step #2 is to create notices to encourage people to stop using it, and possibly an INI option to turn it off. Step #3 removes it altogether.

Just out of the curiosity, have any of the people jumping on the bandwagon to bash this ever actually _used_ gettext at any kind of scale?

I haven't, but then, I do use cookies all the time and don't find it a big requirement to write $_COOKIE. Seriously, it's not just an example. People would use $_GET, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER a hell of a lot more than gettext(). And still, we didn't try to come up with some nifty short for them. Note that gettext() isn't exactly get_an_international_version_of_this_string() either, it's just 7 letters for Perl's sake :) Zeev