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

Yes, definitely.

Zeev

At 18:25 18/12/2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>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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