On So, 2017-11-05 at 20:18 -0500, Michael Morris wrote:
> Then, for backward compatibility, add a php.ini setting that runs
> "import PHP\Legacy" at the start of each script.
We did that mistake with magic_quotes and the ze1 compatibility mode in
PHP 5.0. We should learn from that and reduce numb
No. Hell no. The last thing PHP needs is an ill thought out string of
function name changes to further pollute the global name space. Further,
merely changing the names isn't going to do anything.
What would help is a massive clean and redo for PHP 8 in the same vein as
Actionscript 2 to 3 had a m
On So, 2017-11-05 at 14:51 +0100, Peter Kokot wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't be a good practice to follow
> the
> currently set coding standards?
> https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS
That is good for new code. But breaking 20 years of histo
Hello all,
correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't be a good practice to follow the
currently set coding standards?
https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS
Good:
'foo_select_bar'
Bad:
'fooinsertbaz'
And therefore making aliases for all inconsistently named functions in
the core
Hi!
> Step 1:
> I create a patch with the new aliases.
I don't see much wrong with old names - nobody remembers those names
anyway, and once you use IDE or - for people that still type PHP code by
banging two rocks together, like I sometimes do, the manual - it doesn't
matter whether there is und
On 04.11.2017 at 18:39, Rowan Collins wrote:
> On 4 November 2017 16:40:56 GMT+00:00, Andreas Treichel
> wrote:
>
>> The only
>> exception is image2wbmp which is renamed to image_to_wbmp.
>
> What is the difference between imagewbmp and image2wbmp? If we're going to
> rename things, shouldn'
On 4 November 2017 16:40:56 GMT+00:00, Andreas Treichel
wrote:
> The only
>exception is image2wbmp which is renamed to image_to_wbmp.
What is the difference between imagewbmp and image2wbmp? If we're going to
rename things, shouldn't that difference be made clearer? Or should we be
looking t
