Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15585 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60009 invoked by uid 1010); 24 Mar 2005 16:35:12 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59943 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2005 16:35:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Mar 2005 16:35:10 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.58.150.153 miranda.org Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([209.58.150.153:36651] helo=miranda.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5268)) with SMTP id CB/B5-19031-E3CE2424 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:35:10 -0500 Received: (qmail 13945 invoked by uid 546); 24 Mar 2005 16:35:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Mar 2005 16:35:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:35:07 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: adam@miranda.org To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20050324111834.43481.qmail@lists.php.net> Message-ID: References: <20050321201142.37642.qmail@lists.php.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20050323173319.02eb3990@localhost> <20050324111834.43481.qmail@lists.php.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] extension naming From: adam@trachtenberg.com (Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg) On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jason Barnett wrote: > ... > >> The obvious problem is: > >> What comes after "i"? > > ii? iii? iv? j? k? l? > >> How transparent is this naming scheme to the user? > > Well if it's a simple Roman Numeral system like what I've just done then > we wouldn't really have an issue (except that it assumes people know > Roman Numerals). Not sure if that's really the way you all want to go > though. I thought it was US-ASCII with a starting offset of 9. :) -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" avoid the holiday rush, buy your copies today!