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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 07:09:04 +0900
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Consistent function names
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

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Hi Lester,

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 02/03/15 21:39, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> > I wrote almost complete list. Please take a look at
> >
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/consistent_function_names#list_of_functions_to_be_renamed
>
> While the idea of this is well meant, this is another major problem for
> developers working with substantial legacy code yet needing to update
> third party libraries. The statement "You can use old names for good."
> is all very well, but if one library has been 'modernised and another
> not, one has to work with both sets of names in parallel ... or maintain
> legacy copies of the same libraries.
>

I think old function names should exist forever, so there wouldn't be
issue you mentioned.


>
> Updating the PHP documentation is all very well, but how about
> tutorials, books, third party tools and so on. I would still like some
> help to update PHPEclipse to the recent PHP5 changes without having to
> code a complete new set of reserved words and highlighting ... ore
> reason to simply ditch PHP7 ...


Old names works. No one forces users to use new names.
I'll update PHP documents. It's a lot of work, but I'll.
3rd party documents may be update if they would like to.

The issue here is PHP will keep inconsistent names forever or not.
IMHO.

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net

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