On 8/31/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/30/06, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem with PHP is not that it has > too much functionality, but that it is organized extremely poorly. Amen. PHP is the poster child for namespace pollution. And PHP5 actually has the tools to stop the madness; it's just a question of backward compatibility. I also really hate the HTML-multivalued-input-names-have-[] hack.
My personal gripe is the bizarre way PHP handles scope--what with its hardcoded superglobals, globals, locals, so far so good I suppose, and then... shadowing all the globals when inside a function? Too weird. And I'm not fond of the "arrays are just hashes with numeric keys"
philosophy (which it shares with JavaScript).
That I don't mind so much--from a utility point of view, PHP's unified arrays/hashes are great, almost like a swiss army knife of data structures. But other than that, I love PHP. ;-)
-- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
