-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2/18/2016 8:57 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Nikita Popov wrote: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_1 > > I've actually used create_function on occasion for > programmatically generating functions (in particular to create a > function for each PHP operator), but it's trivially polyfillable, > and it'd be better if people were implementing it themselves (and > thus knowing it's based on eval()) than using it directly without > this knowledge. > > Regarding rand() and srand(), I'm fine with getting rid of them. > Note that we should also deprecate getrandmax() at the same time, > though. It's the function which returns the C RAND_MAX constant. > > Hmm. Well, if we're doing mass deprecations, maybe we should > finally get rid of hebrev() and hebrevc()? It feels out-of-place to > have a poorly-documented standard library function specifically for > converting between two different legacy 8-bit encodings used for > Hebrew, especially when one of them is just the other with nl2br() > included! Users who need to convert between different variants of > ISO-8859-8 can use iconv() instead, or perhaps use a userland > polyfill of hebrev/c(). > > That said, hebrev/c() might be used a lot in legacy code, and > there's probably little harm in keeping it. Similarly, we have > utf8_decode() and utf8_encode() for converting between ISO-8859-1 > and UTF-8, which could also be replaced with iconv(), but they're > probably heavily used. > > Even if we don't get rid of or deprecate any of those functions, > they should probably be moved into a more appropriate section of > ext/ and the manual. > > Thanks! >
+1 for all that are in the RFC and I would like to second Andrea’s proposals. All of them including utf8_encode() and utf8_decode(). Those two are used incorrectly in most cases I encounter them. People seem to assume that they are able to encode anything to proper UTF-8 when calling utf8_encode(). There are more questionable string functions available: - - quotemeta() -- bad function name and purpose is unclear. - - convert_cyr_string() -- iconv() again ... Candidates for moving to appropriate section of ext/ (or PECL) since they are all kind of special and nothing a *normal* program would ever need. Especially since they target English only and there are much better algorithms and tools available to work with such use cases. - - levenshtein() - - metaphone() - - similar_text() - - soundex() - -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWxioTAAoJEOKkKcqFPVVrE8oQAL4GmeeBFGTBiE90sYutyljz hkAZEKBkFVnSK1Ta92DB4+3mWYYtce7C6th9QsqXP871+XAQ92E69YTjP0GrcAm+ Q62kHWzhtDwsN1cePz3DVfuiuNZ0d2mGWoW4ak1azMhWbQGjx+c7nEiugmWOzsRO WjSJrd2SoZClSy/yGhmqs/5OFdj3hlnI4KX0xsM4A03I+reKqZc3VOWyZFXOqjBK VK+Bj8G8hz5bNYk3WFXr2NNA8/r4FAOdOZS4CSsfHTbux/8szqbz2dB2V7oUU9FV 8Z5tpPNPe37GyLjcxvlqcM8QGVjwc3zbxoFK2Jfz6UlnRQxDqH/6XRqNMQF1JslS 7FS8jc57SaUb/9tcg+XwOOkH6yoc30JXjq1BBR0SuNGCB1HDG4vcvWIus2YcI0xO hhPmp/8Rqujv0ybhuikPBdM1XK5E/3dk+G9xsE2sXNWRYbaeu1moahm52RUWnoFx YNAHeYIsA3M1LSncFwiTop6ouqmAAN55wo1rGfocilrwo4lPBF0F6TP8LEeT55vb AwS70sp/gVfyoTN3MEzubn5XZ3jKft82ZEWIdEBwGs7L3BctE2ubCDozrOBqes9W sVcj2zhQV636BC8UbKx0x+5PzlGFDX7xayWvP1J8aks+Th35G7WkU4gb5ajLLXOa W2sMr3dl5EzfgKVLI6+n =Ip+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
