On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:56:31AM -0700, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:
> Hojtsy Gabor writes:
> > > by Daniel:
> > > I would propose that a phpdoc wide change be made so that all functions
> > are
> > > written in lowercase form. It's not necessary to have them in a mixed
> > case
> > > created on the author's whim.
> >
> > > by Jeroen:
> > >
> > > function-names are NOT case-sensitive in PHP itself... so why not change
> > > the stylesheets or something so that it is NOT case-sensitive in the docs
> > > either?
> > >
> > > We've got an excellent DSSSL-fu'er over here :), maybe he or someone
> > > else knows how to change that?
What do you mean with this?
> > XML *IS* case sensitive, and we use XML to make the docs.
> > So I think we should be XML compatible with function names too.
>
> True, but the tool used to document another tool should not define
> what is presented to the reader. :)
>
> I took a quick look through the DSSSL before I committed the patch
> which lowercased the Hyperwave <function> tags a couple of days ago,
> and it looked as though case-folding was intended, as did the XSL
> stylesheet. I haven't had time to look up the syntax used and I'm not
> an expert in either though, so I couldn't say for sure and just ended
> up running a script over hw.xml to fix the problem.
>
> To be honest, I've never noticed this problem before, and I've been
> working on the manual for 3 years. But then, I always use lowercase
> for function names so I wouldn't necessarily have clued in before
> now. :)
Sorry to reply so late, have been on the road in Germany.
This problem with the functions names have been discussed several times.
Look at the mysql_*() functions, there is everything ok. Zeev made aliases
so we have now easy functions name which can be rememberd by any average
user.
Sure function names are case-insensitive. But can you imagine to rename a
function like ImageCopyMerge() or ImageCopyResampled() to imagecopymerge()
or imagecopyresampled()?
-Egon
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