Quoting Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>:
> So I'm all for removing _() from the gettext extension... but I think the
> people who are so eager for this have a responsibility to make sure PHP has a
> good option for user-aliasing of functions in place before it goes away.
I think if something like this had been suggested in the first place, instead
of the all-out annihilate _() warfare that took place (and yes, I am guilty of
responding in kind), we might have had a much shorter discussion. Something to
consider for the future. :)
I would be happy with this kind of solution (removing _() after there is a user-
space alias_function() call which can create a new name for a PHP function). I
would be even happier if calling alias_function('gettext', '_') would simply do
nothing if _() already pointed to gettext(), but I won't quibble about the
function_exists() check.
-chuck
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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
Some fallen angels have their good reasons.