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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] intl naming
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

>    The ICU API solves this issue nicely using the current locale. It
>    would be easier to work with the intl API if the same principle was
>    used. Add a Locale::setDefault() and Locale::getDefault().

You can use default locale, of course, and Locale class already has 
these functions. http://docs.php.net/manual/en/class.locale.php

>    The argument order for the constructors/factories should be change to
>    allow that. The locale argument has to be optional (and moved as 2nd+
>    argument).

I'm afraid that wouldn't work since functions have variable number of 
arguments and we want consistent API across all modules.

>    Arguments order may be confusing and hard to remember. However their

Like "locale goes first"?

> 4. Support of Date Object, they are the standard DateTime type in PHP.

Planned to be done later - if anybody wants to contribute now, please 
do. It is indeed very important, we just don't have somebody to do it 
right now.

> 5. Error management is rather unintuitive. I can't imagine to have to
>    check the error code after each call. Exceptions can greatly improve

Like 99% people do with 99% functions in PHP? You must be really 
suffering not writing code in Java :)

> 6. What's about a __toString implementation when possible. It may be

If you can propose good toString - and especially if you have volunteer 
to implement it :) - why not? We didn't have good use for toString, but 
if you find one - welcome.

>    Prepare:
>    $invoice_line_amount = new NumberFormatter( 'fr_CH',
> NumberFormatter::DECIMAL );
>    $invoice_line_amount->setValue($res);
> 
>    View:
>    echo $invoice_line_amount;

We didn't purport to implement yet another MVC templating system here. 
We wrote ICU wrapper.

> Locale specific:
> - Being able to parse, fetch and manage Locale IDs in a consistent and
>   portable way would rock, the ISO3 related API is a must have prior
>   1.0. It can be used from day #1 to normalize locale IDs format.

Could you elaborate? I think our functions understand locales in 
standard formats, but maybe you mean something else.
-- 
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com