Lars Torben Wilson writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I have nothing against Torben, he has also read about my fight with some
> > core developers and now the mysql_*() functions are more readable. You can
> > also use the old syntax. The original functions havent been removed yet.
> >
> > -Egon
>
> All of what Egon just said is why I didn't go through everything and
> do this--it needs to be thought out better. For the Hyperwave
> extension lowercasing didn't really affect readability, but for others
> it could.
>
> We've lasted this long with the manual being as it is, and as there is
> an effort underway to figure out a standard naming scheme for PHP
> functions, we should IMHO wait for that to happen before making
> massive changes that could negatively affect readability in the
> manual. A stylesheet solution would, until the naming scheme is
> implemented, give us both a) the readability we have, and b) the
> hyperlinking we want.
BTW, yes I know that last week I was all for lowercasing the whole
world. :) I thought about it some more and while I still am for
lowercase function names in the manual, now I just think we need to
make sure we don't rush into it and hurt ourselves. :)
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Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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