Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.

Okay, lets take a step back from the volitile issue and consider the facts. Given the "average" variable name is, let's say, 8 characters. Then one variable name with case sensitivity allows you to use the SAME typing sequence for a total of 256 DIFFERENT variables. I think that surely has some merit, don't you? You could develop a rather sofisticated web application with 256 variable names. Now, if you consider all combinations of the standard a-Z letters the capacity is staggering! Imagine using some 53,459,728,531,456 different variables names. It's impressive, don't you think? I surely have too much time on my hands. I think I'll get back to writing some code! Regards, John Thompson "Tim Uckun" <tim@diligence.com> wrote in message news:5.0.0.25.2.20010509163817.00ae9878@mail.diligence.com... > > > > >Finally, one language issue that is a real pet peeve of mine is case > >sensitive variable definitions. This is not a problem in either CFM or ASP. > >While it can be somewhat worked around by setting the PHP error level > >reporting to flag uninitialized variables, it is a deficiency that is long > >overdue to be corrected. > > From what I hear it's about to get worse. Instead of making variable names > case insensitive they are going to make the function names case sensitive > too. Seems like they want to make the language more C like. > As for other stuff my pet peeve is the lack of consistency in the > functions. Look at all the string functions. Most of them work on a string > but some one the string first some want it last some want it somewhere in > the middle. It's even worse with database functions. Because each function > is written by somebody else it uses a different calling convention or > returns different things. PHP definately lacks the cohesiveness and > intuitiveness of other scripting languages. I don't want to rag on it too > much because obviously the good points of it outweigh the bad points for me > but especially in large projects that require multiple programmers I really > wish it was more cohesive. As it is I am never really confident about using > any function without first checking the manual. In Perl or python I can > pretty much guess what a function is going to do 90 percent of the time. > > > > :wq > Tim Uckun > Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/ Americas > Background > Investigation Expert. > If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered > the risks of a bad hire. > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >