Re: Re: [PHP6] Function name consistency

On 23 January 2014 16:50, Pascal Chevrel <pascal.chevrel@free.fr> wrote: > Maybe it's a stupid idea, you'll tell me :) Wouldn't it be a good thing to > issue a notice when people use the alias instead of the correct function > name? > This is essentially a description of the visible effects of deprecation, and would cause a *lot* of issues in userland if this was done straight away, since there are literally millions of applications using functions that are candidates to be aliased in every page load - remember that everything, including error messages, has an overhead. As Yasuo stated in the first message in the thread: > We may keep alias 10 or 20 years or even forever. We can't consider deprecating (or even "soft deprecating" in the manual, as happened with ext/mysql) any of the old names for a long, long time, as many of them are far to deeply burned into the PHP ecosystem. Thanks, Chris