Re: Consistent function names

On 4 March 2015 21:27:53 GMT, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: >We cannot remove all issue at once. We are better to adopt incremental >improvement, aren't we? I think this, more than anything else, is where I disagree (having been persuaded by arguments in previous discussions). Incremental improvements mean having the cost of change multiple times, and the benefit just a promise for the future. It's like living in a building site while rebuilding your house - sometimes necessary, but not what you'd choose. If we have two names with no other fixes now, then later a third name, or some magic flag, which fixes the argument order and error behaviour, then go through and tidy up, we'll end up with a whole flow chart of "if you need to support version X, use Y; if you find a tutorial using A, replace with B..." Some such change is inevitable - a huge number of tutorials became out of date when ext/mysql was deprecated, for instance - but it's not something to do "little and often" just to make things "a little bit better". Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]