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Subject: I think that "Function naming inconsistency" bug deservers more attention
From: turneliusz@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Damian_Tylczy=F1ski?=)

I've seen discussion on reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/174qng/lets_make_phps_function_names_c=
onsistent/
where many people are surprised why PHP can't have this done. Why
inconsistency is something that we want to keep because of backward
compatibility. PHP already introduced many backward compatibility
issues and this change could just be fixed in old PHP projects (prior
to for example PHP 6 or PHP 5.5) by just simple "find & replace"
script in really most of the cases. Why it is so hard to deprecate
functions that uses naming convention that dosen't really exist, that
names were created by some crazy "let's imagine some name and don't
look at API we have" man? Why we can't have PHP 6 that will be not
some amazingly featured-packed version but version with API that
just... makes sense.

Regards,
Damian Tylczy=F1ski