On Sat, 08 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> Again, by deprecating it now, the immediate action would be removing any
> reference to it from the documentation (the very little there is). There
> are a hell of a lot PHP users to come than there are existing users of PHP,
> so we might as well limit the scope of the problem. We can also advertise
> that this function will not be staying with us in the future, and that
> people should use gettext() instead. We can add an E_NOTICE to it, which
> would make fixing it a trivial single command. When we actually remove this
> alias can be determined in the future.
To me personally, gettext('This is my string') is a lot uglier than
_('This is my String'). I think _() could be made an exception to the
function-naming rule.
-Andrei
Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish;
and you can sell him fishing equipment.
-Author unknown
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