Re: Consistent function names

Hi Rasmus, On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > These come from the underlying libaries. You can type "man dcgettext" or > "man bind_textdomain_codeset" at your Linux command line and learn a lot > about how these work. Plus, if you are a C dev, much like strlen(), > these are simply the names you expect, or at least they are instantly > recognizable to you. As I normally explain to people, there is vertical > consistency here, not horizontal consistency. > > I understand how people who don't have a background in the underlying > libraries might wish for a different API and horizontal consistency > across disparate extensions, but simply adding a bunch of aliases that > have no basis in anything doesn't help anybody. > I know where gettext function names come from. If we write these legacy modules now, there will be modname_function() only. Why couldn't we do it before PHP7? I proposed the same before PHP5. I'll probably do the same before PHP8 if we have legacy names still... We can live without new names, so it's not too important. I just feel somehow PHP being legacy/unmaintained when I see/use legacy function names... Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net