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

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > > > > You can't actually use the class name "DateFormatter" when you > > > > want > > > > pecl/intl to be in core. "Date" is the prefix for the already > > > > existing Date > > > > extension. > > > > > > I think we still can name it DateFormatter, especially if we plan (and we do, > > > as I understand) to merge DateFormatter functions with ext/date in PHP 6, and > > > we don't have any conflict now and we do not have any plans to have > > > DateFormatter in ext/date (correct me if I'm wrong here). > > > > You're wrong. We can rename it later *if* it gets merged into ext/date, > > but you can't simply use a classname with a prefix that conflicts with > > something else. Merging it would most likely change API anyway. > > I rather prefer to have this class (and related) within the ext/date > extensions. It is the only way to have a consistent and working > date/time API in php. Date/time formatting is part of this API. I've mentioned that from the beginning (and started experimenting a bit with it already as date_format_locale()), but apparently that's not the "correct" way. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org