2015-03-05 13:49 GMT+02:00 Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com>: > > > I will say it again a last time, in my opinion only a clean API; > object-like or real object as long as performance is not affected is > the only way I could see to actually solve this problem. > > Changing the names, argument order (pointless once we will have named > arguments, btw) and similar solutions are band aids solutions, > confusing at best, terrible at worst. It is pointless to do it after > almost two decades for some of them. > > -- > Pierre > > I'm with Pierre here. Adding aliases is gonna mess up things even more. For example - autocomplete will become hard to navigate. It's already quite lengthy list a lot of the times and it's easier just to write the whole function name sometimes by hand. Adding aliases will make it worse.
We really need a new API, that is not crossing paths with the old. That way people can start building stuff on new API's and we could phase out the old mess, for example: depricate in PHP8, remove in PHP9. Stop-gap measures have created enough problems already, or did everyone suddenly got an amnesia and forgot all the past lessons on the list?
