Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_builtin_functions.c

Hello Andi, Saturday, April 9, 2005, 1:10:12 AM, you wrote: > Marcus, > PHP is being used by millions of people and it is irrelevant whether you > think that const was wrong from the beginning or not, because we won't fix > something which has been around probably since 1995. Restating that over > and over is not productive as we should support what has been around for a > long time. And mind you, PHP is quite useful the way it is. This was about const which was introduced by sterling in 2004 iirc. [...] > Andi > At 07:15 PM 4/8/2005 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote: >>Hello Andi, >> >> erm yes i could put it to spl as a convenience function prefixed by 'spl_' >>and we could also add a namespace for class functions 'class_' or one for >>the reflection api (whatever that might be) or we could put those as static >>methods into class 'Reflection'. However all of these makee it harder since >>having 'class_exists', 'function_exists', 'method_exists' >>simply screems for >>having 'property_exists' also. Why must we always make php so hard by >>preventing not to have it consitent? I know the 'global namespace' argument. >>But like many other things it is to late to enforce that rule...many years >>to late. And don't ask me about consts. They were wrong right from the >>beginning. we should have read only proeprties instead and be done. >> [...] marcus