you got it the other way round - it's going to get ***better***.

I agree with the rest of your msg.

At 00:46 10.5. 2001, Tim Uckun wrote the following:
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>>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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