Hi Tim On 30/08/2023 13:43, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Hi > > after suggesting the use of ucfirst(strtolower(...)) casing for acronyms > within a classname of a draft RFC, I was made aware of previous class naming > RFC (June 2017) that required the use of PascalCase for class names, with the > exception of acronyms which must be completely uppercased: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class-naming > > I'd like to propose to revisit this earlier decision for the following > reasons. Before writing an RFC I'd like have some pre-discussion to gauge > opinions. > > -------------------- > > 1. It is not consistently applied: > [...]
I think it's a good idea to change the rules to reality as much as possible. Especially given that recent additions seem to follow what you're proposing. > > 2. It decreases readability. > > [...] Agreed. > > 3. Several commonly used userland libraries make a different choice. > > - Symfony's HttpFoundation: > https://github.com/symfony/symfony/tree/6.4/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation > - Symfony's CssSelector: > https://github.com/symfony/symfony/tree/6.4/src/Symfony/Component/CssSelector > - Laravel's HtmlString: > https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/10.x/src/Illuminate/Support/HtmlString.php > - PSR-7: https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-7/ > - PSR-18: https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-18/ > - ramsey/uuid: https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/tree/4.x/src > - Flysystem is a little inconsistent, but has 'Ftp': > https://github.com/thephpleague/flysystem/tree/3.x/src/Ftp > - PHPUnit is a little inconsistent, but has 'Xml' and 'Json': > https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/tree/main/src/Util > - Doctrine is also a little inconsistent, but has 'Dsn' and 'Sql' (but also > 'SQL'): https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/tree/3.6.x/src/Schema/Visitor and > https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/blob/3.6.x/src/Tools/DsnParser.php > > Best regards > Tim Düsterhus > Kind regards Niels -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
