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Stas made a good point about need to start with new API, which then can be followed by syntactic
sugar.
So, we need some ideas to start with:
1. A lot of people told, that it would be a good idea to come with a written standard regarding
arguments order. I don't care what it will be, as long as it will be documented.
2. It would be really useful to have 2 versions of each function: one which mutates the variable and
one which returns the new variable.
Example:
<?php
$src = 'SoUrCe';
$result = lowered($src); // $result == 'source', $src == 'SoUrCe'
$result = lower($srd); // $result == true, $src = 'source'
?>
3. Speaking of implementation… Functions, which return slice of string/array could be made to
reference the same memory-areas as the source strings/arrays. That is until the first modification,
of course. Kinda advanced copy-on-write semantics. I know something like that is implemented in D http://dlang.org/d-array-article.html and Go
4. casting between strings and arrays of characters would be a great thing to have too. this way,
useful array-oriented functions could be applied to strings