@Rasmus: I don't see what's the problem of aliasing functions for the next 1-2 majors, deprecate the inconsistent one in the following and remove later.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Trevor Suarez <ric...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... well that's a constructive way of going about it. I don't think Yasuo > did anything harmful or rude in making his proposal. Regardless of how > realistic the idea may be, I don't think its ever appropriate or > constructive to tell someone to simply "stop" because something "is just > ridiculous". > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:24 AM Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote: > > > On 03/03/2015 07:34 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Michael Schuett < > > michaeljs1...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Your evaluation is pretty anecdotal. I agree with some points but you > > need > > >> some solid evidence if you are going to rate these languages. Also do > > you > > >> have a list of all the functions you would like to rename or is this a > > >> sweeping lets just change everything so it matches and deprecate all > the > > >> old stuff. Your matrix is a very weak push to do so. If you want to > make > > >> these changes it would be better to choose a select set such as the > > array > > >> functions and try and push that through or see what that change might > > look > > >> like and if it's really beneficial to userland. > > > > > > > > > I agree that my evaluation is subjective. For example, I rate PHP has > "1" > > > security only > > > because PHP is very weak against script/file inclusions because it's > > fatal > > > and other > > > languages apps do not have script/file inclusions as PHP apps do. > Others > > > might > > > rate "2" or even "3" because it is too easy to fix it even if incident > is > > > fatal. > > > (Security should be evaluated by "how difficult to make mistakes", not > > "how > > > easy to > > > fix mistakes" generally. IMHO) > > > > > > I made list of rename candidates > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/consistent_function_names# > > list_of_functions_to_be_renamed > > > If you have suggestions, I appreciate! > > > > Yasuo, please stop. This isn't going to happen. Changing strlen() to > > str_len() is just ridiculous. > > > > -Rasmus > > > > > > > -- Guilherme Blanco MSN: guilhermebla...@hotmail.com GTalk: guilhermeblanco Toronto - ON/Canada
