Re: Woah
| From: | Wez Furlong | Date: | Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:03:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Woah | ||
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On 11/09/01, "Egon Schmid" <eschmid@php.net> wrote:
> The _() alias is no function. If someone build-in gettext, he or she
> should read the gettext documentation. The manual can be only a better
> function reference and if every alias would have a description just like
> the real functions, newbies will never find the functions to use.
So why don't we have an alias index? Surely we can autmatically generate
such a list and just have the aliases link to the preferred functions?
> Out of the curiosity, there have been a function (couldn't find it yet)
> which was named rtfm(). This function appears in a German book about PHP
> and it was implemented as a real function and was properly documented.
> If you are interested in the not so long history of the rtfm() function,
> search in the PHP-DEV mailing list archive.
IIRC, it was Hartmut's baby but it got voted out. I didn't realize it
was publicized in a book :)
--Wez.