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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Consistent function names
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

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On 03/04/2015 10:21 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> The same could be done for new names.
> Manual pages for localtime()/mktime()/etc would look a lot nicer.=20
> I hope there will be more favored developers with the RFC. Since I'm
> going to
> update manual to have alias search feature, developers used to POSIX ca=
n
> find
> PHP function name easily. If they would like to use POSIX name, they ca=
n use
> it also. Nobody will try to remove POSIX names in the future, I suppose=
=2E
>=20
> In short, I would like to propose to have both PHP and IEEE names as
> officially
> valid names. Do you like this proposal?

Nope, I don't. PHP is over 20 years old at this point and the PHP names
for the functions are one and the same as the IEEE names. I see
absolutely no reason to create a new class of "PHP" names.

-Rasmus



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