Re: [Zend Engine 2] Constants (was: delete construct)
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:56:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Zend Engine 2] Constants (was: delete construct) | ||
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 04:54:02PM -0200, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> > > It is not developers do not want to conform to ANY given naming
> > > conventions, but rather often that they already follow consistently
> > > conventions that are different than those that you borrowed from Horde
> > > to PEAR.
> >
> > Yes, but that's not the point I was trying to make. I was using
> > that instance as support for the myriad coding styles of PHP
> > developers, especially when it comes to capitalization.
>
> Yes, but making function names case sensitive does not mean that all
> functions from everybody just follow a single set of capitalization
> rules. It means that the case of invocation must match the declaration.
Yes, exactly. That why I included the example of the multiple
spellings of mysql_query().
Most developers pay attention to the functions that they write
themselves (in PEAR, too), but I have seen multiple spellings of
function names in the core PHP distribution.
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