Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26358 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36464 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Nov 2006 18:05:17 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36449 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2006 18:05:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Nov 2006 18:05:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=iliaal@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=iliaal@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=good Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 64.233.162.207 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: iliaal@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.162.207 nz-out-0102.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.233.162.207] ([64.233.162.207:52837] helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 55/28-10980-AD72E454 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:05:15 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o1so675503nzf for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:05:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=EGAlUdmnQxUQRLmCbkROk+UTqXqEvChaZ6pXuF9WXeVRNjW27lIulO0Jm/dcYn7eLY4EQrNOPSMaR2EFhZZO97wBh9tDEQI5uBxqLSC4O2Qz8oIVckqlqqYTB2ppKGkjB3ggowVaeEOuGCcAkH+EiNa7frzulRavvP9+zcaI4Os= Received: by 10.65.176.7 with SMTP id d7mr4150844qbp.1162749912061; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.6? ( [74.108.69.82]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id p4sm5386696qba.2006.11.05.10.05.10; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:05:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <454E2670.4050806@cschneid.com> References: <005e01c6ff82$e6092c30$ec01010a@intranet.db> <2FAA3BA3-283C-445D-9648-70C207FF2251@prohost.org> <454CBD65.5040205@cschneid.com> <454D66C4.2090708@cschneid.com> <303397962.20061105053913@marcus-boerger.de> <454D6EDE.60202@cschneid.com> <454E2670.4050806@cschneid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: <9FF4D6D2-2F94-46AA-B13A-75F51C95892A@prohost.org> Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:05:02 -0500 To: Christian Schneider X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Sender: Ilia Alshanetsky Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New Datetime class problem From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) On 5-Nov-06, at 12:59 PM, Christian Schneider wrote: > >>> c) and thus not having to educate users to use prefixes (to have >>> less guidelines is a Good Thing(tm) IMHO) >> I am not even going to bother with this one. > > So you don't think fewer rules are easier to learn and use? *puzzled* There are no "rules" there is just one rule, that's not even specific to PHP when you think of it. It is generally considered to be a good practice to prefix your code with app name or similar to avoid conflicts with other libraries and/or applications. When it comes to this rule, I think it is one of the very few that are essential for developers to learn. Ilia Alshanetsky