RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [php-icu] Graphemes and unicode vs intl extension

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Tex Texin wrote: > I admit to being unclear on why DateFormatter conflicts with Date. > I'll have to read the manuals later. Seems rather limiting if all > names beginning with "Date" are now verboten. That said: > > A) Derick, Shifu, Can you (or anyone) demonstrate the name conflict? I > think it should have been caught by testing if it exists. I'd like to > reproduce the problem. It's not only an issue for classes starting with Date actually. It's in the CODING_STANDARDS: http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/CODING_STANDARDS?view=annotate#l152 Classes should be given descriptive names. Avoid using abbreviations where possible. Each word in the class name should start with a capital letter, without underscore delimiters (CampelCaps starting with a capital letter). The class name should be prefixed with the name of the 'parent set' (e.g. the name of the extension). In this case, all of the classes in pecl/intl should start with Intl. The reason for this is to not ever have conflicts between different extensions. > B) Name change proposals: > > 1) DatetimeFormatter > 2) IntlDateFormatter Which is option 2. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org