>
>Finally, one language issue that is a real pet peeve of mine is case
>sensitive variable definitions. This is not a problem in either CFM or ASP.
>While it can be somewhat worked around by setting the PHP error level
>reporting to flag uninitialized variables, it is a deficiency that is long
>overdue to be corrected.
From what I hear it's about to get worse. Instead of making variable names
case insensitive they are going to make the function names case sensitive
too. Seems like they want to make the language more C like.
As for other stuff my pet peeve is the lack of consistency in the
functions. Look at all the string functions. Most of them work on a string
but some one the string first some want it last some want it somewhere in
the middle. It's even worse with database functions. Because each function
is written by somebody else it uses a different calling convention or
returns different things. PHP definately lacks the cohesiveness and
intuitiveness of other scripting languages. I don't want to rag on it too
much because obviously the good points of it outweigh the bad points for me
but especially in large projects that require multiple programmers I really
wish it was more cohesive. As it is I am never really confident about using
any function without first checking the manual. In Perl or python I can
pretty much guess what a function is going to do 90 percent of the time.
:wq
Tim Uckun
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