Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76198 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50496 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2014 17:22:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jul 2014 17:22:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:48668] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id EA/82-22380-F3535D35 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:22:07 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE871B00085; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:22:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08xZr3gtpf7J; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD8DDB0007B; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <77BCF83D-F7AF-4853-8C40-D07D1CFFF8DE@lonnylot.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:22:09 +0100 Cc: Pierre Joye , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <8A6FFF5D-6FF4-4297-B83B-56AFAF64B715@ajf.me> References: <482DEC36-8A5A-4840-910A-3C63CA3A503B@lonnylot.com> <77BCF83D-F7AF-4853-8C40-D07D1CFFF8DE@lonnylot.com> To: Lonny Kapelushnik X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] imagettf* deprecation/removal From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 27 Jul 2014, at 18:09, Lonny Kapelushnik wrote: > Whom are you suggesting the alias would be simpler for? >=20 > Personally, I do not think it would be simpler for the userland API to = have them aliased. I think an alias will cause unneeded confusion, = discussions, and waste time in an office. The API signatures are compatible, yes? In which case, just make the = legacy functions be aliases of the new ones. This avoids breaking = everyone=92s code. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/