Re: Woah

Just to add my few £0.02 to this discussion :) _() just doesnt make sense to anyone who hasnt used gettext() which tbh is probably the vast majority of the comunity, I have seen _ in the function lists and Zend and Harmuts site and just thought it was a querk somewhere.. _() to me looks like some sort of Perlish operator, the fact that gettext in C allows you to use it doesnt make it right for PHP, the gettext obviously have a different naming system to PHP. I would say that it clutters the namespace and is ugly and there is no reason for it to be there, if you are worried about performance then try running this on your file after you have coded it: sed -e's%_(%gettext(%g' file.php >temp' cp temp $file OK its a pain in the arse to do every time but tbh I think that echo is used a lot more so lets make echo aliased as ^(.....) oh and perhaps we should have sprintf as *() and dont forget while.. I bet perople get bored of typing that so lets make it >(conditional expreesion) { ................} and perhsps we then need some for switch and if I think ? and < would be good candidates for them, right now as mysql is the main database used with PHP lets save people some typing but loosing the mysql_ infront of it and have connect, query, fetch_array.. but that might be unfair on the pgsql users so lets add a special operator as the first line of the script which can choose between pg or mysql maybe somthing like %m or %p.. then we could have a great looking script like the following: <?php %m; $dc = connect("blah","blah"); select_db("blah",$dc); $sql = "SELECT * FROM "._("lang table"); $r = query($sql); >($row = fetch_array($r)) { <($row[0]) { ^($row[0]); } } ?> I personally think that looks quite good.. Ive even managed to save myself typing a whole 27 characters.. now I can type at 30 odd words a min.. average length 5 letters.. thats a whole 5.4 seconds do you really think loosing readability is that worth it, most people can type fast enough so that gettext makes very little timewise to _(, its more readable and promotes good code rather than lazyness. - James