Re: Re: [PHP6] Function name consistency
| From: | Pascal Chevrel | Date: | Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:59:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [PHP6] Function name consistency | ||
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Le 23/01/2014 18:45, Chris Wright a écrit :
On 23 January 2014 16:50, Pascal Chevrel <pascal.chevrel@free.fr> wrote:What would be the plans to have developers use the updated function names then? php.net documentation redirects from the old function name to the new function name page? PascalMaybe 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.