Re: RFC: old function alias
| From: | Jani Taskinen | Date: | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:59:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: old function alias | ||
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcus Börger wrote:
>A discussion on irc (german) just reminded me of one of
>my ideas for php 5:
>
>Currently we have PHP_FE and PHP_FALIAS what about
>making another one PHP_OLD_FE which handles those
>names which are old that are incompatible with the naming
>scheme?
>
>We would have a new configure option: --with-incompatible-function-names
>to enable those (and don't anybody make this switch shorter)
>
>What do you guys think?
Just remove the old aliases, it's good enough error message
what you get when you use non-existing function name.
Dragging those forever, even between major versions, is stupid.
--Jani