Re: Re: Proposal: Rename image functions

On 07.11.2017 at 02:53, Andrea Faulds wrote: > OOP would be nice for avoiding having to type image* constantly. > > But as for the hard-to-read naming, OOP isn't necessaary, IMO. The > current GD API's naming without underscores cries out for camelCase. And > that's possible for methods… but it's also possible for functions! Both > are case-insensitive, so in fact, you can already type GD function names > in camelCase and the code will work. The problem here is we have a > convention of writing global function names in the manual in lowercase, > something we don't do for methods. The convention is rather to document function names in their canonical form, i.e. what's returned via reflection. > The simple and pragmatic solution is > to make an exception and document GD in camelCase, as God intended. > (Probably.) I don't know what God intended, but it seems that Rasmus intended PascalCase, see <http://php.net/manual/phpfi2.php#imagearc>. -- Christoph M. Becker