Re: Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread

Can this be summed up to "alias, but never deprecate the original names"? BTW, one of the major problems PHP suffers is that if you _don't_ come from C or Perl (novice programmer or VB, e. g.), you feel terribly, because PHP is one hell of a mess. One _hell_ of a _mess_. At 15:33 7.2. 2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, James Moore wrote: >> Replying to myself but just to make another point I missed out =) >> >> I think that one of the advantages of PHP is you can come from >> C/Perl/Whatever and have functions in common, dont break this. I was very >> much in favour of renaming all functions systematically until I sat down an >> made myself a list then thought how ugly and unusable it made parts of the >> lang. Leave 90% of functions in ext/standard alone. Alter the other ones. > >Can't agree more. :) > >-Andrei ------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