[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] convention about function naming II From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 12/18/00

I prefer making function name changes *before* people use them. Also you're
unlikely to break stuff. I would put it in 4.0.4.

Andi

At 15:40 18/12/00 +0100, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
>eschmid+sic <email protected> wrote:
> > > 2) unconventional function naming caught:
> > >
> > > a) ctype - already mentioned in README that the author (Harmut) does not
> > > know if adding a prefix or using C-Names is preferable, I think both are
> > > valid
> >
> > I know Hartmut very well. It seems he is knowing himself what he is doing.
>
>ctype is an execption in that it provides some functions that are
>in very common use in C so that they might perhpas deserve to keep
>their names that we are all used to,
>
>but on the other hand they do collide with the variable information
>functions like isset() or is_string()
>
>so i did want to rename theese to ctype_*() but didn't make it in time
>before the 4.0.4RCs where rolled out, so it's C-ish style for now
>
>but both the README and the EXPERIMENTAL files in ext/ctype say that
>changes may still happen, so it's not finally decided yet ...
>(thats what the EXPERIMENTAL files are for anyway ...)
>
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