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

At 19:45 7.2. 2001, James Moore wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >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. Great. >> YMMV, but I think the debate is worth it no matter what the >> outcome will be. > >Agreed Great, too. >> 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. That's for sure. I didn't mean we should roll it out right now (or withing a few weeks). ____________________________________________________________ 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