On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:18:26PM -0500, Daniel Beckham wrote:
> > 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()?
>
> It took me a few minutes to understand what you were saying, but I see now
> that you mean that it's difficult to read those long function names in code.
> What does it take to add aliases for these functions? Is having this many
> function aliases ok with the development team, etc.? If this is truly an
> issue, can we begin making these transitions?
I'm not an native English speaker so I'm not surprised that you needs some
minutes :)
Some years ago there have been disscusions and there have recently beens
some discussions to make the function names more user friendly. I have
made the suggestion to make function names with underscores and not with
capitalized letters. I mean the function name ImageCopyResized should be
aliased to image_copy_resized.
This discussion arise every now and then. I hope the QA team can make some
improvements. I have for myself not the time to change the source code.
I'm only looking for the function prototypes within comments.
-Egon
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