On 5 June 2017 09:14:47 BST, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Seriously, can you explain in words of one syllable the precise >benefits of >such a consistency?
I will try: - When we write code, we need to know how to spell the names of things. If the things all have names that look the same, it is less hard for us to guess what the name is. This means we take less time to learn the names, and get less things wrong. - Our brains are made to spot when things are the same, and when things are not the same. When one thing is not like the things near it, we think "why is that?" This slows us down. - When we get things wrong, we need to find out what we did wrong. If one way to write a name is wrong, we can spot when we wrote it that way, and know that it is wrong. - If we make two things that mean the same thing, but do not look the same, we might not spot that we wrote a third thing that does not mean the same thing. I think there are more things that make it good to have names that look the same, but I hope this helps for now. Yours, R -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
