Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort
| From: | Phil Driscoll | Date: | Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:11:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort | ||
| Groups: | php.qa | ||
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I wrote:
> Just to add another element to the discussion, currently PHP does not give
a
> hoot about the case of letters in the internal function names. If it did,
> would that help us find a good solution here?
Zak replied:
> You mean something like:
> UPPERCASE = naughty
> lowercase = preferred
I don't really know what I mean :) It just struck me that there could be a
neat trick which exploits this which helps us in our quest. Caring about the
case of the letters increases namespace by an amount so big that it's got to
be of some use. I get the impression from code snippets on the list, and
from various apps I've downloaded that just about everyone uses lower case
throughout at the moment. This might mean that a change to uppercase or to
initial caps, or similar might mean that a new clean scheme can be
introduced with minimum inconvenience.
Cheers
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Phil Driscoll
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