Re: Function Renaming

If you refer back to the first message in the "[PHP-QA] Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread" thread, there is a summary of the proposed methods for aging the function names and aliases. --zak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derick Rethans" <d.rethans@jdimedia.nl> To: "Karl Austin" <karl@KDAWEBSERVICES.COM> Cc: "Php-Qa Mailinglist" <php-qa@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-QA] Function Renaming > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Karl Austin wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > You already know what I think, I agree that changing core functions could be > > pretty confusing and that blindly adding an underscore won't help anyone and > > is only a half-way house. If it is going to be done then we should have > > meaningful names that newbies (excuse the phrase) can easily pick up and > > recognise what the function does. > > > > If the functions are to be renamed/aliased I think ALL functions should be > > done to make all of them the same standard - I know this could end up > > causing major headaches so I propose that we distribute a program that > > people can run their files through and have the 'old' function names > > replaced with the new ones. This way the 'old' names can be deprecated and > > it should only effect a small number of people that haven't changed their > > function names. > > Nice idea, I guess you just volunteerd :) But I don't think we must > depreciate the old functions immediately, but have some sort of > transistion phase in which the old names are slowly removed. > > Derick Rethans > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-qa-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-qa-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >