Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort

From: Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:06:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort
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OOP is hard to grasp only for those stuck in the '60 structural programming. :)) In other words, functional or object programming are just a different approaches with equal amount of alienism to a novice. If OOP is your entry point to programming, you won't have any problems. At 12:51 8.2. 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Zak wrote: >> You and your English k-niggggghts don't scare me. ;) > >Ni. > >> Users would not have to use classes - this is just a foul little hack >>that >> creates extra namespaces by exploiting a valid class behavior. :) > >To my mind that syntax just makes it harder for the novice. Currently you >can (just about, if not completely) do everything that php can do without >the slightest bit of OOP knowledge in your head. I think this is a very >important feature (more important even than consistent function naming). > >Cheers >-- >Phil Driscoll >Dial Solutions >+44 (0)113 294 5112 >http://www.dialsolutions.com >http://www.dtonline.org > > >-- >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 ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ 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

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