Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:6282 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12525 invoked by uid 1010); 8 Dec 2003 10:45:31 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12324 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 10:45:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tc.ma.cx) (213.39.144.248) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2003 10:45:27 -0000 Received: from [192.168.255.8] (mac.thieso.net [192.168.255.8]) by tc.ma.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6516F87; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:45:21 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20031208121206.6e6d42c3.tony2001@phpclub.net> References: <20031205163044.130c88ed.tony2001@phpclub.net> <006f01c3bb34$efb22970$8802a8c0@obsidian> <20031205170502.0A3F.MAXIM@maxim.cx> <20031205190223.14724165.tony2001@phpclub.net> <5029FB84-27C0-11D8-AD6A-000393C4A12A@thiesos.org> <20031208121206.6e6d42c3.tony2001@phpclub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thies C.Arntzen , internals@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:46:02 +0100 To: Antony Dovgal X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] for oci8 and some improvement proposals From: thies@thiesos.org (Thies C . Arntzen) Am 08.12.2003 um 10:12 schrieb Antony Dovgal: > > so should I add oci_lobgetlen() instead of OCILobGetLength calls after > this statement? > or this code is considered to be working and should not be changed > anymore? > > and what about deprecating old syntax, that doesn't meet naming > conventions? > i don't think we should break the current style. so just use "OCILobGetLength" and - if you feel like it - then change all the function names to match the std naming-conventions but keep the old names as aliases for bc. as jani has taken me out of the MAINTAINER file (without asking me) you're welcome to take over maintainership for this piece of code. i'd be willing to assist you if you have any questions. quick note about deprecating "old" syntax: we have a long history of keeping deprecated things in forever. would you change functions names in a big php-site you have created just for the sake of it? i certainly woudn't. don't get me wrong, if you want to create new names for the functions that's fine by me, but make _very_ sure you don't screw people. tc