Re: [PHP-DOC] Aliases for functions, and some "Official Function Naming Rules" From: Zak Greant (zak <email protected>)
Date: 09/12/00

Just a thought (not necessarily a good one :)

  - zak

At 03:56 PM 9/12/00 -0500, Daniel Beckham wrote:
>No, I think that when it comes down to it, it's just not worth being
>dogmatic to the point that it hampers the coder. Having a standard to help
>make it easy to recognize, research and use functions is one thing, but
>sticking to it too strictly will make the language wordy and irritating to
>use.
>
>Also, we are trying to get away from using aliases.. not move towards them.
>
>Daniel
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Zak Greant" <zak <email protected>>
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Aliases for functions, and some "Official Function
>Naming Rules"
>
> > As much as I would hate to deal with names like that, perhaps -- just to
>be
> > consistent -- every function should follow the naming convention. If this
> > was done, the core functions (string, variable, math, date, etc...) should
> > have short name aliases that are preferred to the long forms.