> If it is changed to use its own namespace, user space APIs may be changed > flexible and user controlled manner. Thus, PHP may have > > - Consistent naming > - Consistent parameter order > - Graceful function/class/interface deprecation > (We know what we should do for these, right?)
I do not support it for consistent naming or parameter order by themselves; this would likely create more confusion. However I see value in creating new APIs for certain operations such as sorting, mapping, reducing and filtering. These new APIs could work on both arrays and traversables and provide a more cohesive API. This would 'fix' several bug reports dealing with array functions that you can't pass traversables or array-like objects to where you would reasonably expect to be able to. When creating these functions we could be careful to create consistent naming conventions and consistent parameter orders, but again I consider this a side-effect rather than a reason. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
