Ken - see my point? :)
Andrei - ugliness is not a metrics, anymore than disappointment is. Fact -
gettext(foo) is much less magical and much more understandable than _(foo).
>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:45:53 -0500
>From: Andrei Zmievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Zeev Suraski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Chuck Hagenbuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah
>
>On Sat, 08 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > Again, by deprecating it now, the immediate action would be removing any
> > reference to it from the documentation (the very little there is). There
> > are a hell of a lot PHP users to come than there are existing users of
> PHP,
> > so we might as well limit the scope of the problem. We can also advertise
> > that this function will not be staying with us in the future, and that
> > people should use gettext() instead. We can add an E_NOTICE to it, which
> > would make fixing it a trivial single command. When we actually remove
> this
> > alias can be determined in the future.
>
>To me personally, gettext('This is my string') is a lot uglier than
>_('This is my String'). I think _() could be made an exception to the
>function-naming rule.
>
>-Andrei
>
>Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish;
>and you can sell him fishing equipment.
> -Author unknown
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