Hi Pierre, On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > First of all, I have no intention removing old function names. > > > > PHP function names are subject of critics for a long time. > > http://www.phpsadness.com/sad/4 > > http://www.phpsadness.com/sad/15 > > http://www.phpsadness.com/sad/27 > > > > How about rename all of these functions according to CODING_STANDARD for > > PHP7 > > and have aliases for old names? Some names need complete rename, but > most of > > them are matter of adding "_". > > > > Function names like phpversion(), htmlentities(), image*() shouldn't be > > kept. IMHO. > > (I repeat. I have no intention removing old names) > > > > str*() would be most difficult. How about rename all of them to str_*()? > > and keep > > libc compatible alias names forever? > > > > Thoughts? > > I see no gain to do that. It also won't solve the arguments order mess. > > The last time we discuss this topic the idea was to go for the new > pseudo object for most scalar, something Nikita worked on with a > prototype, allowing something like $mystring->replace(...); But adding > name aliases only to get names_defined_correctly sounds like a bad > move to me. Sadly, this proposal only renames functions and has aliases for old names. We may try to fix argument order mess when we have "default namespace"! I just don't have time to do all the job at once... I posted [RFC][DISCUSSION] as new thread. Please look at the list of rename candidates. I think you'll agree to rename most of them. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net
