Suggested Function Renaming Process
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Find bad function names.
I already walked through a number of extension and posted results here. I still dislike that not all array functions begin with array_ (eg. the older ones), perhaps we should create aliases here to and remove the old ones from the documentation or move them elsewhere?
Wait til the next *major* release (i.e. PHP 5)
Remove the aliases from the documentation.
Change the behavior of PHP_DEPRECATED_FALIAS so that a warning level error
is thrown when an alias is used.
Notify the users that old function names will be disabled in the next major
release - highlight the upcoming change in the release notes for every
version released.
sounds good
Also, providing scripts (or even a PHP function) that report old function
names and/or update old names to new names (and alias/report conflicting
user functions) should not be too challenging.
sounds even better
Separating them (deprecated functions) into a "deprecated" section in the documentation is very important I think.
andré
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