Massive -1 on this unless we decided to tackle some issues that have been raised in the past:
I don't see much of a problem with Zend class doing a number of functions. It's an utility class so it does a number of things, but having class for each of these functions would not really do much use - these functions are too small for a class, they are utilities - so nothing wrong with having utility class. Actually, a lot of OO libraries have a number of utility classes where they aggregate small functions. If Zend_Debug is going to have one dump function or even two - there's no much use of having such a class at all, Zend::dump is not worse and we already have it.
-- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zend.com/
