Re: Function Renaming

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Karl Austin wrote: > Hi again, > > You already know what I think, I agree that changing core functions could be > pretty confusing and that blindly adding an underscore won't help anyone and > is only a half-way house. If it is going to be done then we should have > meaningful names that newbies (excuse the phrase) can easily pick up and > recognise what the function does. > > If the functions are to be renamed/aliased I think ALL functions should be > done to make all of them the same standard - I know this could end up > causing major headaches so I propose that we distribute a program that > people can run their files through and have the 'old' function names > replaced with the new ones. This way the 'old' names can be deprecated and > it should only effect a small number of people that haven't changed their > function names. Nice idea, I guess you just volunteerd :) But I don't think we must depreciate the old functions immediately, but have some sort of transistion phase in which the old names are slowly removed. Derick Rethans --------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------