RE: [PHP-DEV] Consistent function names

From: yohgaki@gmail.com [mailto:yohgaki@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yasuo Ohgaki, Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:45 AM > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Christian Stoller <stoller@leonex.de> wrote: > From: yohgaki@gmail.com [mailto:yohgaki@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yasuo Ohgaki, Sent: Thursday, > March 05, 2015 > 7:21 AM > >> For example, ctype extension has "ctype_" prefix. It replaces >> "is" to "ctype_". >> we may have "isalpha" alias as IEEE compliant name. There are many >> IEEE confirmed names already. Only small adjustments are needed. >> > > Changing ctype_alpha to isalpha would be inconsistent with is_numeric. > > I'm not going to change ctype_alpha to isalpha, but add IEEE complied name > alias. So the manual page would have ctype_alpha as the main function, > isalpha as IEEE complied alias. Hi Yasuo, I am not sure if you understood me correctly. If you add the alias isalpha, there will be people who will complain about new inconsistences, because there will be isalpha and is_numeric. Function names starting with "is", having an underscore and some having no underscore. I do not think that this mix will lead to less complains by developers. Christian