Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:65210 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93923 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2013 10:45:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Jan 2013 10:45:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.128.174 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.128.174 mail-ve0-f174.google.com Received: from [209.85.128.174] ([209.85.128.174:47228] helo=mail-ve0-f174.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 18/E1-12745-0D3B3015 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:45:36 -0500 Received: by mail-ve0-f174.google.com with SMTP id c13so578600vea.19 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:45:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=v+PEhFQnKAWfZ9wFabFes/OBDRPnijV5ZcopNh9ko50=; b=qpsY6Tyy9vx71IV/W6JnxcOXsj5YXDnogTMSP3hrUDBEZp16de4ZNXedyzkwE+I4w/ HHPI4tNxzYI3On7kSZgTxvGP1MBNdJK1X4V8PmhvQ7pPH+rjPHtWYTeXKsN7fsYC1Mqu EAt7WQvAR91GgdSSjM0Y1/nvMGJDpH9sb9ZJ6TYmUXZZFtS3fvNK63uqU8OVMgvEH6c/ /bIT9mk4QE9I3ho90xTtCKMaE7IZY2nGTGjd7KESBQiLOmDrMGw3x416YoSQGZd+fwMJ mWa3684xSgUrfcSad8ibrdf4mL0dYc75Rz5shL8h0oRZCMGESAeTGfttBikQbD7SDmPh UmpQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.40.135 with SMTP id k7mr9029199vce.12.1359197133141; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.41.195 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:45:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <5102D1DB.9060305@sugarcrm.com> <51032B3C.7040608@sugarcrm.com> <51033962.1030805@zerocue.com> <510342CD.6020405@sugarcrm.com> <51039A95.6010307@lerdorf.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:45:33 +0100 Message-ID: To: Thomas Bley Cc: "internals@lists.php.net" , Rasmus Lerdorf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] I think that "Function naming inconsistency" bug deservers more attention From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Thomas Bley wrote: > So function aliases, new open tag and deprecation are bad. What about > the String class? > I think there was some "Let's ... start exploring lighter and more > approachable ways to attack Unicode" on internals ... Unicode is a totally different topic. I would suggest to look at intl (ICU) extension for a start. Also about cleanup the APIs, take a look at this prototype: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects This is something that would be much cleaner and without BC problems. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye