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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:15:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP5 extensions: using existing functionnames as method
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

> As I wrote, I've looked around existing extensions which redefine function 
> names
> (SPL and zip) and there I found those Macro-Definitions and thought this 
> could be
> the solution.
>
Fair enough....I must not have read that in my review of the thread...

>>> #define string_G(v) (string_globals.v)
> Actually I don't know where this come from and why it's in.
> I don't have any globals. ext.skel? Copied from somewhere? Don't know.
>
ext_skel would have upper-cased it for you when you ran the script... but 
yeah, no big since you're not using extension globals anyway... Just some 
cruft to clean out....

> If there is any interest in OO-Representation of primitive types let me 
> know,
> So I could release them as PECL-extension.
>
Ah yes, that was one thing I was also going to mention.   Using 
primitive/common names is discouraged for non-core extensions (at least the 
ones we release on pecl.php.net and can exercise some amount of control 
over).  For an answer to why: Refer to Steph's summary of the Date Wars 
(pear in that case, but the same concept applies).

-Sara