Pierre,
On 28.01.2014 16:32, Pierre Joye wrote:
hi,
While reading the various discussions about what we should change,
kill, remove, rename and similar operations, I thought it would be
good to put things back in perspective.
It is indeed very appealing to think about killing every single little
annoyances PHP has accumulated. The idea to be able to write "nice and
clean" code makes me feel good.
However it has drawback, adoption.
One thing I would very strongly consider is the actual gains brought
by a change.
- rename or alias functions to fulfill our naming conventions or
coding standards
. where is the gain in the long term?
. most of the functions are procedural and string/array/scalar
related. I would prefer to think about alternative solutions like the
NIkic's proposal using OO-like APIs. Keeps BC, brings cleaner APIs
into the game
- Case sensitivity
. Even with ini setting, which will be most likely system wild, will
bring a major breakage for almost every single app out there. I do not
see any gain to do it.
Amen!
Andrey