Re: Some PEAR remarks

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 02:34, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > Martin Jansen wrote: > > > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:55:29 +0200, Vincent Oostindie wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:08:47 +0200, Jason Lotito wrote: > > >>> A question in advance: why are member variables in PEAR prefixed with a > > >>> '_'? Sure this is useful in languages like Java or C++ where > > >>> it's hard > > >>> to see which variable is a local one, an argument or a member, but in > > >>> PHP this distinction is already clear: all member variables are > > >>> prefixed with '$this->' inside a method. And if you use proper > > >>> encapsulation, member variables are never accessed from anywhere else. > > >>> (And very, very sadly, this is not the case in the PEAR library!) > > >> > > >> > > >> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php > > > > > >I know that they're following a standard, but I question the standard, not > > >the fact that PEAR uses it :-) > > > > The coding standards have been questioned by a lot people so far, > > but they all did not succeed :-). A project like PEAR simply needs > > some guidelines concerning the coding style and we will not change > > them just because there are some people that don't like them. > > Please search the mailing list archives (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/) > > for the flame wars and endless dicussions concerning this point. > > > > PLEASE don't start a yet another useless coding standard discussion. > > You are missing Vicent's points. > > Vincent bothered to spend time and analyse PEAR code. Then he bothered > to write a fully justified message with the criticisms that he sees as > appropriate according to pondered points of view. > > What does Vincent get for that? > > Hostitlity, hostility and hostility! > > This is a very consistent pattern of PEAR people. Where's the hostility in this thread? Vincent has gotten several decent and non-hostile answers. Sneaking in a comment like this is very consistent of Manuel Lemos. - Stig