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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:31:04 +0100
To: Adam Bregenzer <adam@bregenzer.net>
Cc: Nathan Sullivan <nathan@php.net>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] www.php.net RC1 News - Front Page
From: swalk@prp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de (Stefan Walk)

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:25:06AM -0500, Adam Bregenzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 18:02, Nathan Sullivan wrote:
> > A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and 
> > later. Additionally to a functional interface this new extension also 
> > includes an object-oriented interface and support for many of MySQL's 
> > new features such as prepared statements.
> 
> Also, the second sentence sounds strange:
> Additionally to a functional interface this new extension also includes
> an object-oriented interface and support for many of MySQL's new
> features such as prepared statements.
> 
> Perhaps:
> This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to
> its functional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new
> features, such as prepared statements.
> 
> -Adam

I don't like the term 'functional' there, as it's misleading...
Languages like lisp, haskell, ... are commonly referred to as functional
languages, where languages like C (and non-OO PHP) are referred to as
imperative or procedural. I think that should be rephrased... maybe
titled as 'traditional interface' or alike.

-- 
Regards,
Stefan Walk
<swalk@prp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>