Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 TODO

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 21:11 19/02/2000 , Andi Gutmans wrote: > >At 11:55 AM 2/19/00 -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > >>On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Thies C . Arntzen wrote: > >> > WTF - lets make it part of the language.... or not? > >> > >>Of course. > > > >I think it could probably be part of PEAR. We don't need to bloat the > >language with constants and more functions just because it's nicer to have > >them in C. If we can implement this functionality pretty easily with what > >PHP already has then doing it in PEAR would probably be better. I think in > >general, we should start switching our minds to doing stuff in PEAR if > >possible. > > Well, I'm a bit skeptic about this. > Stig, as the founding father of PEAR, what do you think? Right now PHP has a "philosophy" of including most functionality in the binary. It would be very confusing to users if we start making some functions (similar to eachother) part of PHP while others part of PEAR. IMHO pathinfo() should go into PHP until we have a clear "roadmap" that we've all agreed on of where PEAR starts and PHP ends. - Stig