Re: [PHP4BETA] CVS update: php4/ext/pcre

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Stig Bakken wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Bjorn Borud wrote: > > > [Stig Bakken] > > | > > | I think it is, ask how many people on php3@ have ever heard of > > | pcre > > > > *raises hand* > > If I had written "dumb users on php3@", as I first intended, you would not > have trigged on this one Bjørn. :-) > > > | "preg_" should be our preferred choice. > > > > I like "pcre_" because I don't believe in inventing new names for > > things when they already have a name. > > > > your name is Stig, but I'll refer to you as "Yipyip" because I think > > it sounds cooler. > > It's very simple: "ereg" -> "Extended regexps", "preg" > -> "Perl regexps". > Your analogy means that the functions should be named after the regex > implementation they are using, which implies that our current functions > really should be named "hsreg"? Anyway, we can probably fight this one > out offline during our next smoking break ;-) i tend to recall that you don't smoke! stig, what has happened? btw i vote for preg_ tc > > - Stig > > > -- > PHP 4 Beta > > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany -- PHP 4 Beta