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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 04:18:00 -0500
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] I think that "Function naming inconsistency" bug
 deservers more attention
From: theanomaly.is@gmail.com (Sherif Ramadan)

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On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> Please stop with these. We can't keep explaining why function aliases,
> <?php6 and deprecating function names that have been in use for nearly
> 20 years is a bad idea.
>
> There is a reason that REFERER is still around in HTTP. It is obviously
> not spelled correctly, but the pain of fixing it would far outweigh the
> appeasement of the pedants out there. Does it make it harder to figure
> out HTTP-related stuff? Not really, you won't necessarily know this term
> even exists until you learn about it. Same goes for PHP functions. If
> you understand where they come from you expect them to be named strlen,
> strchr, strpos, etc. and if you don't understand their origin then you
> simply learn them or let your IDE autocomplete them for you.
>
> And if you really think this is something a majority of people are
> interested in, write up an RFC and put it to a vote. And when that fails
> write yourself  a userspace "consistency" library that names all the
> functions the way you feel would make them consistent and put it out
> there. or heck, if you are worried about performance of a userspace
> wrapper, write an extension that does it. But please stop posting about
> it on internals. There are a lot of real issues we should be spending
> cycles on.
>

I don't think this could have been phrased any better :)

*tip of the hat*


>
> -Rasmus
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