Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8

Hello, On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 23:40, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22/01/2019 21:27, Midori Koçak wrote: > > Can we also add strange function names without any naming conventions to > > this list > > In short, no. I wish we had an FAQ where we could avoid recapping the > arguments around this, but it has come up many times, and the conclusion > has always been that it's never going to happen. > > It would be great if we could invent a time machine and design the > language differently, but it's too late now, there is just too much code > out there to "fix". This now also means that PHP is making its inconsistency a fact and it will never ever be able to reach the consistency level it should be at... Specially, if more and more people believe this. I'm not sure this is the good approach in programming and neither is really a fact, but who am I to judge this state now. It would be good to avoid having FAQs and appendixes in coding standards for those function_name_ext_SomethingElseOutofblue() cases so that it might be still achieved one day. -- Peter Kokot