Re: PEAR::Date broken (Was: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_2)/ext/date php_date.c php_date.h)

Hello Lukas, in a dreamworld everyone would prefix all obvious/easy names as they are by their nature likely to cause clashes. [Marcus falling a sleep and hitting the send key] best regards marcus Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 4:31:11 PM, you wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> I think we need to rename it. php_date or _date or something. I don't >> really care what the name is, but I think we are too late in the game to >> get the 'date' identifier. The other functions enabled are fine and >> quite necessary actually. Both timezone_abbreviations_list() and >> timezone_identifiers_list() are quite useful. > This is a very key decision to make as we add new OO features, and other > abstract types. Does PHP reserve a right to claim obvious identifiers or > should PHP require from itself to namespace things like this with a > prefix (php_)? > Regardless what decision we make I think its high time that we document > what approach we want to take. A while ago I proposed such a standard > [1], but it obviously requires a decision from internals to be of any > merit. In the proposed document I gave PHP the right to claim whatever > identifiers it chooses, therefore pushing up the responsibility of > prefixing identifiers to end users (including PEAR). > regards, > Lukas > [1] http://oss.backendmedia.com/UserlandNamingGuide Best regards, Marcus