Re: Consistent function names
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:57:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Consistent function names | ||
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On 03/04/2015 10:21 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> The same could be done for new names.
> Manual pages for localtime()/mktime()/etc would look a lot nicer.
> I hope there will be more favored developers with the RFC. Since I'm
> going to
> update manual to have alias search feature, developers used to POSIX can
> find
> PHP function name easily. If they would like to use POSIX name, they can use
> it also. Nobody will try to remove POSIX names in the future, I suppose.
>
> In short, I would like to propose to have both PHP and IEEE names as
> officially
> valid names. Do you like this proposal?
Nope, I don't. PHP is over 20 years old at this point and the PHP names
for the functions are one and the same as the IEEE names. I see
absolutely no reason to create a new class of "PHP" names.
-Rasmus
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