Hi,
> Apparently, you either I grossly mistyped what I wanted to say, or you
> misread it, or you never coded much in php.
The first one.
>> > I was wondering if it would be feasible to create an alias for this
>> > function, say hsc() or something short.
>>
>> > [..]
>>
>> > It is no big deal, but for a function that is used ALL THE TIME, it would
>> > be nice.
>>
>>why do something in C, when it can be done in PHP so nicely:
>>
>>function hsc(&$var) {
>> $var = htmlspecialchars($var);
>>}
> Maybe you ought to coding guidelines on zend.com which EXPLICITLY state
> that the above practice is BAD.
You're quite funny. Could you please read my sentence below?
"..Actually doing hsc() in PHP is compareable silly.."
I never said this would be a good solution - but you demanded it.
>>Alias are terrible. The decrease readability of your code. Actually
>>doing hsc() in PHP is compareable silly.
^^^^
re-read this please.
> What I am trying to find out here is if it would be feasible to implement
> the alias in C, so there is not performance loss, and so it makes every
> ones lives just a little bit easier.
It is not about performance. It is about _readability_. Aliases are
good to maintain backwards compatibility, but they shouldn't be used
to introduce more commands which do the same thing.
Kind Regards,
Daniel Lorch
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