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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:04:05 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
Cc: Christian Stoller <stoller@leonex.de>, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>, 
	Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>, internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP6] Function name consistency
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Compare: `$str = str_replace('-', '_', $str);`
> >
> > To:      `$str = $str->replace('-', '_');`
> >
> > Or: `$keys = array_keys($array);`
> >
> > To: `$keys = $array->keys();`
> >
> > I think it looks a lot cleaner, self-explaining, shorter, and if you
> > are used to write OOP, it fits better to the rest of your code.
>
> I think it has very little difference and entirely a matter of personal
> taste. But the thing is - nobody prevents anybody from writing an
> extension that does string ops or array ops as an object. Yet it did not
> happen in last 10 years, AFAIK.
>

https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects

Also, the point of doing this is not the nicer syntax, but the opportunity
to improve the APIs in a reasonable fashion (no countless aliases).

Nikita

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