[PHP] PHP needs better funtion organization, naming and parameter specifications. WAS: Form Validation Issues

2007-05-23 Thread Daevid Vincent
On Thursday 24 May 2007 00:51, Greg Donald wrote: As I watch PHP de-evolve into Java, I find myself wanting something lighter weight and with a smaller syntax. PHP has long since spawned into something uncontrollable. Compare the number of functions (and its aliases) to eg Ruby. The

RE: [PHP] PHP needs better funtion organization, naming and parameter specifications. WAS: Form Validation Issues

2007-05-23 Thread Jay Blanchard
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Re: [PHP] PHP needs better funtion organization, naming and parameter specifications. WAS: Form Validation Issues

2007-05-23 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Thursday 24 May 2007 04:57, Jay Blanchard wrote: Send this all to the developer's list Too late now. The damage has been done. Fixing all the inconsistencies would either break backward compatibility or introduce a whole raft of yet more aliases. Rasmus should have applied strict controls

RE: [PHP] PHP needs better funtion organization, naming and parameter specifications. WAS: Form Validation Issues

2007-05-23 Thread Daevid Vincent
Send this all to the developer's list Too late now. The damage has been done. Fixing all the inconsistencies would either break backward compatibility or introduce a whole raft of yet more aliases. That's what I suggest: We rename th functions to proper names. Then we make aliases