Re: Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread

At 21:41 7/2/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, Karl Austin wrote: I know that the language should not alienate existing users, but without new users the language will die, without new users the language will not spread, without ease of use the language will not get to the masses. I'd just like to mention that PHP seems to be doing fine as far as new users are concerned - look at the growth rate.. So, the argument of "new users will not _get_ the language" doesn't seem too strong to me.

I'm about half way through reading this thread, and there's one thing I *completely* agree with. I think one question we should be asking ourselves is whether we're trying to fix something that is not broken. It may *appear* broken, but in practice, where it matters, it's actually doing exceptionally well (growth wise, and the fact that the #1 advantage of PHP I'm hearing from users is that it's remarkably easy to learn and use). Zak - I did say that *if* we decide to add aliases, they should be meaningful, and not just the old names with underscores. This is still a conditional though, I'm not sure at all on whether we should add aliases or not. Zeev