php function renaming

Hello All, Chuck Hagenbuch and I had a quick discussion about function renaming earlier in the day. After we talked, I asked Chuck if we could bring the discussion onto the list. Here is a summary of what we discussed. CH> 1. Why are the IMAP functions losing underscores, when almost CH> everything else is gaining them? ZG> My goal was to make the extensions internally consistent ZG> with the least amount of effort. Doing this should save ZG> developers time by helping them reference the manual less ZG> when they are in the middle of production coding. ZG> Dropping the underscores for a few functions caused less ZG> change than adding them to everything else. CH> Okay - with the goal of moderation and consistency within CH> extensions, this makes perfect sense. CH> 2. While you're at it, why not rename the imap_ functions to CH> mail_ or cclient_ or something else more generic that CH> indicates that they work with pop3 and nntp, also? ZG> Again, I was trying to make the least change. My belief is ZG> that many things should be completely renamed - however, Andi ZG> said be moderate, so I am trying to be moderate. :) CH> I'd argue that this is perhaps a special case; so many people CH> have been misled as to what those functions can do since CH> they're prefixed with imap_ ... ZG> As long as we can get group consensus on this issue, I am all ZG> for it! :) ZG> This would also let us move to the most common naming scheme ZG> of extension_verb_... Ciao, Zak