On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM Bob Weinand <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Larry, > > On 27.2.2026 17:32:47, Larry Garfield wrote: > > Though I would also question why so many people are voting for > > $subject-last for the secondary vote. > > The two-argument variants are consistent with e.g. addcslashes (one > subject operated on with an argument) - so that's perfectly consistent. > > Then for replacing, you want consistency with str_replace, and > preg_replace and such.
Maybe consistently inconsistent. ;) In my opinion, it's much better to not keep repeating the same mistake, pick a standard and stick with it. Subject-first always works. I wouldn't think many people want to internalize the placement of the subject based on the kind of string replacement function. Ilija
