Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort
| From: | Cynic | Date: | Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:21:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.qa |
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-qa+get-2258@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
+1
At 03:08 7.2. 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote the following:
--------------------------------------------------------------
>I don't particularly like str_tok() kind of functions.
>
>My view is that standard C-like functions should remain with their standard names, and not added
>aliases that only add underscores. The reason for this is simple - the C function names are
>extremely short, and they don't only save in the underscores, but in the words themselves. For
>instance, if we were to add a human-readable version of strtok(), it should probably be something
>like string_tokenize() or str_tokenize().
>
>If we're adding aliases, let's not limit ourselves to just adding underscores, but
>actually try to make them readable...
>
>Zeev
------end of quote------
____________________________________________________________
Cynic:
A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught
that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is
the essential part of virtue.
cynic@mail.cz