Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:128488
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=us-ascii
Precedence: list
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3826.700.81\))
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Split as an alias to explode
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRQKZZFpGxbJ7RUJm1qzEnZwxq31v4Tz4RWK-GbNpYssmQhw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:14:16 +0700
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-ID: <A357864F-81AC-44B7-A678-373E708E8099@nicksdot.dev>
References: <CAEwRQKZZFpGxbJ7RUJm1qzEnZwxq31v4Tz4RWK-GbNpYssmQhw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Vinicius Dias <carlosv775@gmail.com>
From: php@nicksdot.dev (Nick)


> On 15. Aug 2025, at 22:53, Vinicius Dias <carlosv775@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hello, internal folks.
>=20
> We have `join` as an alias for `implode` so I think it makes sense to
> have `split` as an alias to `explode`, doesn't it?
>=20
> If I understood it correctly (I don't have any knowledge in PHP's
> internal code) this doesn't add a lot of maintenance complexity so I
> see no reason to not have it.
>=20
> I tried starting a PR but it's probably missing stuff (although it
> seems to work after I compiled and gave it a try).
>=20
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/19490
>=20
> Since this is such a small change, I wouldn't expect it to require an
> RFC, but if it does, I'd be happy to write it.
>=20
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.

For consistency with other newish string functions, I would like it =
better to have a `str_` prefix. However, `str_split` is already taken.=