Re: [PHP-DEV] strchr() From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/24/00

OK I don't mind leaving it this way if you think people will get bitten by
the current behavior. It probably wouldn't make any noticeable difference.

Andi

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Sterling Hughes wrote:

> 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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