Re: Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread

On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, Cynic wrote: > Well, it doesn't have to be that way. I'm sure that if I had > to learn the "clean" version of PHP, it would take me maybe > less than a third of a time compared to the real one. > The difference? In one case you have to memorize the function > names and their arguments, in the other you're set off with > knowledge of a few principles and english. > > * I wouldn't have to memorize bin2hex() and bindec(), and wouldn't > consistently put / omit the '2' in the wrong function. > * I wouldn't have to memorize that explode() is different from > strstr(). (Let me explain: implode is like strstr in that sense > that it takes two arguments, which can be percieved as a haystack > and a needle. You break the haystack on the needle. But if you > look at it this way--which I, sorry me, do--you see the > inconsistency.) > * Lots of other things. The way Python does it (which I kind of like) is by putting all related functions into a module and then accessing them through that module, e.g.: string.uppercase() string.lowercase() string.find() os.popen() You get the idea. PHP will not be able to do that due to the lack of namespace/module support, so the only resort is to use prefixes... -Andrei "Later in this talk, I intend to define the universe and give three examples." -- Larry Wall