Re: www.php.net RC1 News - Front Page

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:25:06AM -0500, Adam Bregenzer wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 18:02, Nathan Sullivan wrote: > > A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and > > later. Additionally to a functional interface this new extension also > > includes an object-oriented interface and support for many of MySQL's > > new features such as prepared statements. > > Also, the second sentence sounds strange: > Additionally to a functional interface this new extension also includes > an object-oriented interface and support for many of MySQL's new > features such as prepared statements. > > Perhaps: > This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to > its functional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new > features, such as prepared statements. > > -Adam I don't like the term 'functional' there, as it's misleading... Languages like lisp, haskell, ... are commonly referred to as functional languages, where languages like C (and non-OO PHP) are referred to as imperative or procedural. I think that should be rephrased... maybe titled as 'traditional interface' or alike. -- Regards, Stefan Walk <swalk@prp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>