Re: Trying to catch up

> > > > 2. Is hungarian notation not a topic to discuss in PEAR? I find it very > > > > Please, no! I _hate_ hungarian notation. If things are unclear, just make your > > variable/function names more descriptive... Also, this what phpdoc/javadoc style > > Not to mention the fact that such notations are useless in a loosely > typed language. > to this i can only partly agree, since a function you write does always return, a defined data type otherwise the calling function would also get confused or to complicated and during my PHP experience i have only rarely discovered that a variable or function is not of one type, converting is mostly only done temporarily, at least the way i did it, and if a variable is an integer although it's saved as "7" (which is a string) the program only uses it as an integer... i also started with hating hungarian notation, until i was involved in a project where it was required and used everywhere, and i found it VERY useful and helpful, hard to get used to but later it made work much easier but if the PEAR-community agrees on not using hungarian - that's fine with me, it was just a question Wolfram