Re: Consistent function names
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:13:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Consistent function names | ||
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Yasuo Ohgaki wrote on 03/03/2015 04:01:
Hi Lester, On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:You keep mentioning this coding standard like it's the Holy Bible. Coding standards are only as useful as the problem they're trying to solve, and there can always be justified exceptions to the rule. I doubt most PHP users look at that list of functions and think "tsk, tsk, the PHP devs didn't follow their own coding standards". They might think "why are these functions named the way they are?", in which case Rasmus has provided the answer, in terms of "vertical consistency" with cross-language libraries. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]On 02/03/15 23:54, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:I know we used to have had copy of C library names. I already explained why it looks awful. It violates coding standard and sitting in PHP for more than a decade as it is.This looks awful... just cannot put up with...Rasmus has already answered, but are you prposing to rewrite -> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html