RE: [PHP-QA] Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread

>James is right.. PHP was never designed and implemented in a clean room >by a single person (unlike Python) - it's a glue language that's been >evolving according to what its users wanted to take from and give to it. >That said, standardizing function names seems like a good idea - but it >will only help newcomers - experienced PHP coders will not benefit from >this change. We also have to take into account the pros and cons of this >change - once it's done we will suddenly have strlen() _and_ str_len() >and newcomers may be confused... >-Andrei So the answer to it is, don't give newcomers the option to know about the old function name ( strlen() ), the manuals can be changed so that only the new function names are shown and the manual with the old names in can be archived somewhere for reference for anyone who needs it, but hopefully no-one would need it as they could move over to the new function names - I know that it isn't an easy task as the manual is huge, even just for the English version. Karl