Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort

(Prefix: Again, what is the impact--performace-wise--of many PHP_FALIAS()es? Is something like --enable-strict-names / --enable-strict-names-only viable?) At 12:40 7.2. 2001, André Langhorst wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >[+1] for creating a list with string functions which should *NOT* aliased and renamed I'm afraid this would be shooting the effort in the leg. We should think the opposite way. >str_ group: >str_implode -- Join array elements with a string >str_join -- Join array elements with a string >str_levenshtein -- Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings >str_locale_conv -- Get numeric formatting information >str_md5 -- Calculate the md5 hash of a string >str_Metaphone -- Calculate the metaphone key of a string >str_nl2br -- Converts newlines to HTML line breaks what about str_nlbr (like dechex) or str_nltobr (like strtolower) or even str_nl_to_br? (I don't like this one). this should be resolved too. This is a sub-issue, but from my POV it's very important to have a scheme for this too. >str_parse -- Parses the string into variables >str_quoted_printable_decode -- Convert a quoted-printable string to an 8 bit string >str_quote_meta -- Quote meta characters >str_set_locale -- Set locale information >str_similar_text -- Calculate the similarity between two strings > >exceptions: >print -- Output a string >printf -- Output a formatted string >sscanf -- Parses input from a string according to a format ok, but then again, I can understand if someone feels it should be str_print. On the other hand, you can print() a boolean or a double... var_print()? You can print a constant... So I'd stick with just print(). >str group >strrpos -- Find position of last occurrence of a char in a string >strspn -- Find length of initial segment matching mask >strstr -- Find first occurrence of a string >strtok -- Tokenize string what's wrong with str_rpos? >dunno, maybe exceptions?: >Ord -- Return ASCII value of character >rtrim -- Remove trailing whitespace. str_rtrim might look strange or crippled, but that is the case with most of the functions. Virtually everybody will have their favorite function, and they'll feel "offended" if it changes -- because "booo, strtok's been strtok for years in C, what's that str_tok shit?" ____________________________________________________________ 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