Re: Woah

[Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>] > At 09:13 08-09-01, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > >At 05:33 AM 9/8/01 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >>That's unfortunate. IMHO, it should be phased out. > > > > I'm against it. _() has been around forever as part of gettext > > package and people who expect to find it in PHP will be pretty > > disappointed. > > Disappointment isn't exactly the metrics here. People who migrate > from other languages will be disappointed not to find all sorts of > things they're used to from their old languages, but it has never been > a reason to obscure PHP. > > _() has no room in PHP's naming convention. There's a small downwards > compatibility issue (it's not advertised very promptly), so we should > deprecate it just like we deprecate and have deprecated other > functions in the past. Hey, let's just leave it, please. There's a zillion people who use this now, it's what they expect if they have used gettext before. It's been here for 2.5 years, it hasn't bothered anyone until now, and I don't think removing it would be anything less than counter- productive. Removing it would only make people alias _ to gettext themselves, net result being i18n'ed code running slower. It's not like we're going to add more single-character aliases, so I don't buy the feature creep argument either. L_A! (leave _ alone!) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway