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To: internals@lists.php.net,Tony Marston <TonyMarston@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <3351770B-C53E-4062-A91A-D3AA7439F02B@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class Naming in Core
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 5 June 2017 09:14:47 BST, Tony Marston <TonyMarston@hotmail=2Ecom> wrote=
:
>Seriously, can you explain in words of one syllable the precise
>benefits of=20
>such a consistency?=20

I will try:=20

- When we write code, we need to know how to spell the names of things=2E =
If the things all have names that look the same, it is less hard for us to =
guess what the name is=2E This means we take less time to learn the names, =
and get less things wrong=2E
- Our brains are made to spot when things are the same, and when things ar=
e not the same=2E When one thing is not like the things near it, we think "=
why is that?" This slows us down=2E
- When we get things wrong, we need to find out what we did wrong=2E If on=
e way to write a name is wrong, we can spot when we wrote it that way, and =
know that it is wrong=2E
- If we make two things that mean the same thing, but do not look the same=
, we might not spot that we wrote a third thing that does not mean the same=
 thing=2E

I think there are more things that make it good to have names that look th=
e same, but I hope this helps for now=2E

Yours,
R

--=20
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]