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 Content preview:  On 11.12.18 16:42, Marco Pivetta wrote: > > People who don't
    know what FFI is, don't need it. > > I think this is a very dangerous way
    of designing, writing and documenting > software. > > I appreciate your efforts
    in pushing this forward, but please reconsider > when approaching the naming
    problematic, because this point of view is > extremely flawed. > [...] 
 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] FFI - Foreign Function Interface
From: markus@fischer.name (Markus Fischer)


On 11.12.18 16:42, Marco Pivetta wrote:
>   > People who don't know what FFI is, don't need it.
> 
> I think this is a very dangerous way of designing, writing and documenting
> software.
> 
> I appreciate your efforts in pushing this forward, but please reconsider
> when approaching the naming problematic, because this point of view is
> extremely flawed.
> 

I'm fine with FFI and it matches other scripting languages (python, 
ruby, lua). Not saying that's the reason to not change it but seems to 
me the name is most appropriate in its field; I see no harm.

- Markus