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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC [Discussion]: Randomizer Additions
From: internals@lists.php.net ("Joshua Rüsweg via internals")

Hello!

[As Larry kindly pointed out to me, I only sent the email to Larry and 
not to the mailing list.]

> "Alphabet" here still, to me, implies a character set, not a byte stream.  Maybe getBytesFromString?  getBytesFromList?  getBytesFrom() (because you're getting it "from" the string that's provided, so you don't need another noun there.)?
> 
> I'm not opposed to the functionality, but "alphabet" doesn't seem like the right word for it.

I'm not really happy with the name either and was hoping for some 
suggestions. `getBytesFrom` sounds incomplete to me. `getBytesFromList` 
sounds to me as if an array is being passed there and not a string. 
`getBytesFromString` sounds good to me, though. Better than 
`getBytesfromAlphabet`!

Cheers

Joshua Rüsweg