RE: [PHP-QA] 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_. This is true but it sure as hell makes understanding C code easier, If you are familiar with PHP then look at C code you can at least get the general gist of whats going on (ignoring structs and pointers etc) and there is a lot to be said for this, anyway you sure as hell wont get all developers agreeing to depreciate old names and introduce hundreds of new names into the name space. Start with a clean up and YES alias with systematic names but I sure as hell do not want to have to relearn hundreds of function names, its bad enough atm when I hack in C I find myself using PHP syntax and function names and vica versa. DONT SCREW UP WHAT WORKS, and dont give options for people to disable old function names, I want to know my current scripts will work on ALL versions of PHP not just some. James