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

From: Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:01:15 +0000
Subject: Re: anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub.
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:-) ... and then there's: sTrPoS StRpOs STrpOS stRPos sTRpOS ... sTRPOS STRPOs It's really quite fun! I will continue to use PHP regardless of the outcome of this issue! Regards, John Thompson ""Brinkman, Theodore"" <Theodore.Brinkman@standardregister.com> wrote in message news:FE8510398BFE854F9653B5C32DBB652FD4F397@oh_daytn_xch01... > <not a flame> > > Hey! Some of us out here LIKE case-sensitive languages. Is there really > any reason why you need to use STRPOS() in one place, StrPos() in another, > Strpos() in another, and strpos() in another? If you use any sort of naming > convention, the case-sensitivity actually HELPS people understand your code. > > Get used to it, even html is going to end up being case sensitive when xhtml > becomes the day-to-day standard. > > </not a flame> > > - Theo > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Brunet [mailto:GBrunet@Semper_Soft.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:05 AM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] anti-advocacy: Larry Seltzer, pcmag May'01 pub. > > > Tim: > > AAARRRGGH! They got it half-right with case insensitive functions and now > they're going to mess up the part that's done right!?! It is quite annoying > that they aren't consistent, but I was thankful that at least the functions > were working "right". > > -- Greg > > "Tim Uckun" <tim@diligence.com> wrote in message > news:5.0.0.25.2.20010509163817.00ae9878@mail.diligence.com... > > > 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. > > <clip> > > > > -- > 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 >

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