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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] I think that "Function naming inconsistency" bug deservers
 more attention
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 01/25/2013 10:55 AM, Seva Lapsha wrote:
> Well, how about renaming the functions, create aliases for BC and throw
> E_DEPRECATED or E_STRICT on their usage? And write a PEAR script bundled
> with the distribution to migrate to the new convention?

Throwing warnings on perfectly working code is really a bad idea. It
annoys users, slows down their code, and doesn't add any value at all to
them.

It should also be noted that many of the function names that people
don't think are consistent are actually quite consistent when you
consider that PHP is just a thin wrapper on top of underlying libraries.
Functions from libc like tempnam() and strlen() are perfectly fine. The
fact that you can go to your Linux command line and type: "man tempnam"
to get a good idea of what is happening behind the scenes of the PHP
function of the same name is a good thing.

-Rasmus