Re: some thoughts about php 6

clicked too early, more to come, but feel free to reply to this part alreay :) On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > While reading the various discussions about what we should change, > kill, remove, rename and similar operations, I thought it would be > good to put things back in perspective. > > It is indeed very appealing to think about killing every single little > annoyances PHP has accumulated. The idea to be able to write "nice and > clean" code makes me feel good. > > > However it has drawback, adoption. > > One thing I would very strongly consider is the actual gains brought > by a change. > > - rename or alias functions to fulfill our naming conventions or > coding standards > . where is the gain in the long term? > . most of the functions are procedural and string/array/scalar > related. I would prefer to think about alternative solutions like the > NIkic's proposal using OO-like APIs. Keeps BC, brings cleaner APIs > into the game > > - Case sensitivity > . Even with ini setting, which will be most likely system wild, will > bring a major breakage for almost every single app out there. I do not > see any gain to do it. > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org