Re: Net_SMTP

At 10:50 09/02/2001 -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

Quoting "Hellekin O. Wolf" <hellekin@mmania.com>: *** We're discussing renaming functions on php-qa... I take it backwards compatibility is being taken into consideration? =) And that someone will post a summary to php-dev before action is taken? -chuck *** Sure...

To summarize for major issues :

        - "standard" functions borrowed from C and others (strpos, etc.) will remain asis
        so that experienced programmers in other languages can find the basic stuff.

        - all renamed functions will be aliased and a warning issued for programmers
        to notice that they're using the old naming scheme

        - the new naming scheme should be implemented over the next two major releases of PHP,
        namely 5.0 and 6.0... So we have some time to get this enforced.

        - Options to implement that include special compile-time options such as
        --with-strict-names or --with-loose-names...

        - We (QAT) also want to make sure that the new naming scheme is approved by the PHP Group
        and PEAR people.

Note that the issue of renaming PHP functions, as underlined by Zeev, is not really a big issue from the user point of view as some renaming as already be done transparently (he gave the example of PHP/FI functions that are still there but undocumented). Anyway, the PEAR and DEV lists will receive an RFC for the renaming when it is issued. If you want to participate in the discussion, please join the php-qa list and read the last few messages on the "Functions Renaming" threads. hellekin