On 03/03/2015 07:34 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Michael Schuett <michaeljs1...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Your evaluation is pretty anecdotal. I agree with some points but you need
>> some solid evidence if you are going to rate these languages. Also do you
>> have a list of all the functions you would like to rename or is this a
>> sweeping lets just change everything so it matches and deprecate all the
>> old stuff. Your matrix is a very weak push to do so. If you want to make
>> these changes it would be better to choose a select set such as the array
>> functions and try and push that through or see what that change might look
>> like and if it's really beneficial to userland.
> 
> 
> I agree that my evaluation is subjective. For example, I rate PHP has "1"
> security only
> because PHP is very weak against script/file inclusions because it's fatal
> and other
> languages apps do not have script/file inclusions as PHP apps do. Others
> might
> rate "2" or even "3" because it is too easy to fix it even if incident is
> fatal.
> (Security should be evaluated by "how difficult to make mistakes", not "how
> easy to
> fix mistakes" generally. IMHO)
> 
> I made list of rename candidates
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/consistent_function_names#list_of_functions_to_be_renamed
> If you have suggestions, I appreciate!

Yasuo, please stop. This isn't going to happen. Changing strlen() to
str_len() is just ridiculous.

-Rasmus


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