Re: [PHP-DEV] strchr() From: Sterling Hughes (sterling <email protected>)
Date: 04/23/00

Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Write now the PHP function strchr() is aliased to strstr() for some odd
> reason. It could be implemented much faster as strchr() just looks for a
> character within a string and not a string within a string.
> Do you guys think people are using strchr() where strstr() should be used,
> and will they get bitten if its behavior is changed to do "exactly but not
> more" of what it should do?
>
> Andi
> ---
> Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>
> http://www.zend.com/

Since we have already documented them as being aliases for quite a while
now, it will definitely break a lot of scripts, and considering most of
the people using PHP are on hosting on pretty fast machines, the speed
gain is not, I don't think, worth breaking perfectly good scripts.

Sterling 

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