Hi! > Old cellphones were shipped with a user manual that contained precise > instructions on how to deal with the installed OS.
You don't really need a whole manual to know two things are the same. You only need one line from that manual. It's a minimal effort, well within expected of what may be required of a person learning new language - I think reading a couple of lines is not excessive. > New smartphones do not contain a user manual because the OS is so > intuitive that nobody has a need for them. Or so the marketing team would love us to believe ;) If you think a programming language somehow can be so "intuitive" that you never need to actually know anything to use it - you're in for a somewhat unpleasant surprise, unfortunately. We can make learning it easi-er - and having aliases is part of it - but we can never make it so easy as never having to actually touch the manual or any other learning media. > discussion because you simply say no and do not even allow a That is not correct. I say no with substantiation - namely, that removing aliases would cause code breakage and would not add anything to actual functionality. Your argument seems to be generic "redundancy is bad" argument, and treating somebody asking questions on stackoverflow as evidence that we have a problem. Both are wrong - redudancy can be both good and bad, and in our case I think it is good because it lets people continue to rely on their previous experience both in PHP and other languages. Also, somebody asking questions is not a reason to change the language - there always will be people asking questions, and that's fine as long as we have good easily accessible answers, which we do. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
