Re: [PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/reference/filesystem/functions fclose.xml feof.xml fflush.xml fgetc.xml fgetcsv.xml fgets.xml fgetss.xml flock.xml fopen.xml fpassthru.xml fputs.xml fread.xml fscanf.xml From: Derick Rethans (derick <email protected>)
Date: 01/12/03

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> > I changed handle to fp (rather than the other way 'round) because
> > all of those files listed used "fp" except for the ONE that used
> > "handle". That's of course not to say that we can't still change 'em
> > all to "handle", but there are several examples peppered throughout
> > the manual which use $fp as the resource variable.
> >
> > I'm personnally -1 on using "handle" as the parameter name, but it's
> > a weak -1... maybe more of a -0.5
>
> Well, $fp is something kinda "leftover" for "file pointer". As fopen
> opens many more things then files (eg. STDIN :), it technically not a
> file pointer anymore. Therefore I think handle is better ;)

I'm for "handle" too.

Derick 

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