[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] ctype function (re?)naming

[Andi Gutmans]

At 04:34 PM 3/7/2001 +0100, Hellekin O. Wolf wrote:
>At 17:22 07/03/2001 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
>>>*** What is the difference between error ad errstr ?
>>>Maybe errstr should be changed to errmsg ? (Did I say that elsewhere ? ;-)
>>>As the file extension is .bz2, maybe the prefix should be bz2_ as well 
>>>(it's an algorithm, not a version right ?)
>>
>>How about error_message or error_string?
>
>*** Well, errmsg/errstr are everywhere else, be it in PHP or C.
>errno would take the lifting also... We would end with function names like :
>
>         mysql_error_number()
>         mysql_error_string()
>
>Looks great regarding paragraph formatting but wastes lots of keystrokes ;-)

It's always better to write a few extra characters if it makes your code 
much more readable.

Andi


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