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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
From: peterkokot@gmail.com (Peter Kokot)

Hello,

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 23:40, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>
> On 22/01/2019 21:27, Midori Ko=C3=A7ak wrote:
> > Can we also add strange function names without any naming conventions t=
o
> > this list
>
> In short, no. I wish we had an FAQ where we could avoid recapping the
> arguments around this, but it has come up many times, and the conclusion
> has always been that it's never going to happen.
>
> It would be great if we could invent a time machine and design the
> language differently, but it's too late now, there is just too much code
> out there to "fix".

This now also means that PHP is making its inconsistency a fact and it
will never ever be able to reach the consistency level it should be
at... Specially, if more and more people believe this. I'm not sure
this is the good approach in programming and neither is really a fact,
but who am I to judge this state now. It would be good to avoid having
FAQs and appendixes in coding standards for those
function_name_ext_SomethingElseOutofblue() cases so that it might be
still achieved one day.

--=20
Peter Kokot