Re: [PHP-DEV] Function names

2001-12-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
And in the process we would break thousands of scripts. We would therefore have to maintain the old function names and create a new version of each one and thereby clutter the function namespace incredibly to the point where we will stand a huge risk of also breaking existing code by

Re: [PHP-DEV] Function names

2001-12-10 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
09-12-2001 18:33 you wrote: Nope, there are no plans to change the names of the base functions in PHP. I'm a little new to this list so just say if you have discussed this in the latest past, but wouldn't it be an idea to name function after which library they're in? Not really.

[PHP-DEV] Function names

2001-12-09 Thread Jonas Delfs
Hi - I've read somewhere that PHP4.1.0 (or was it PHP5?) finally will provide some more logic functions names depending on librarys. Something like file_open(), array_extract() instead of fopen() and extract(). Can anyone confirm this? -- Mvh./Best Regards Jonas Delfs, http://delfs.dk --

Re: [PHP-DEV] Function names

2001-12-09 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Nope, there are no plans to change the names of the base functions in PHP. -Rasmus On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Jonas Delfs wrote: Hi - I've read somewhere that PHP4.1.0 (or was it PHP5?) finally will provide some more logic functions names depending on librarys. Something like file_open(),