Hi, Everyone here forgets that there's a little certification run by some guys named Zend that factor in some of these things as well.
That's the point of not having consistency? Checking if some have better memory that others? Also, I suppose that everyone can afford to look up things on the PHP manual when doing debugging on some crashed remote service via CLI only access. Now, on a nicer tone. Consistency across function name/parameters would help out both new people that learn the language as well as leave out one point when compared to the other languages. Sure, there's no point in changing things just for the sake of it but I don't get it why this couldn't be a viable option for PHP 6 for example, which is a major release. It would definitely help out new users and get some bonus points while doing so in order to close the mouth of those arguing that PHP is so inconsistent in naming things. Phil Sturgeon had a nice idea on his blog, http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2013/01/php-6-pissing-in-the-wind which I think could very well apply to PHP and maybe something like this could be done by someone with less C/PHP internals knowledge that some other features. If that's the case and all we need is someone to do the changes, then I could level up my C knowledge and help out if no one else is willing to do it. I'd dislike for it to be rejected with reasons like: - but it doesn't bring anything new; - it doesn't help us with anything; - it doesn't solve real problems; - the current functions reflect the underlying functions used. I've been a PHP user (developer) for a couple of years now and I really don't care what's the parameter order for the functions that PHP use to help me out getting my job done; - perfection ain't good. Best regards. ---- Florin Patan https://github.com/dlsniper On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net> wrote: > Hi > > 2013/1/25 Damian Tylczyński <turneli...@gmail.com>: >> I've seen discussion on reddit >> http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/174qng/lets_make_phps_function_names_consistent/ > > There is one really clean solution to this "problem" for the > consistency Guys that tend to complain about PHP endlessly; write the > aliases in PHP that can be included, which can be considered just like > using one of the frameworks thats filled with functions, it can be > written quite fast and you can even use auto_prepend_file to include > it in all scripts. > > As said in countless mails above, there is no gain for breaking BC due > to "perfection". > > -- > regards, > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > ka...@php.net > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
