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

> There's nothing personal in > this, and I'm not going to go and shove the changed language > down your throat. (Not even if I could.) The people who are > involved in this thread participate because they a) want to > scratch their itch (like me), and b) try to avoid a major > PITA. Its nothing personal at all. I just feel very strongly that it would do a lot more damage to rename a lot of the core functions than leave them slightly non standard, yes there are exceptions to this as well. I also feel that all extensions (anything outside ext/standard) should be renamed totally and rally push that naming. > > YMMV, but I think the debate is worth it no matter what the > outcome will be. Agreed > BTW, I don't think this change should be made begind a closed > door, either. I was thinking of PHP-QA and PHP-DEV as places > where ideas are brought, hammered, and either percieved as > reasonable, or discarded. The former would then be presented > to the public to vote on. Something like: we were talking > about strlen (just an example), and possible changes/aliases > are str_len and str_length. What do you think? THAT would be > OSS. :)) Keep it to PHP-DEV and PHP-QA this is probably the best place to have this discussion now but before anything is done a summary should be written and posted on the web somewhere for anyone to read.. Dont think we are there yet though. James