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Posted by tony on 12/21/05 11:56
>> "Removing function aliases does nothing except annoy users."
> It increases the documentation and the confusion.
Having function aliases does not confuse me. I have seen it in several
languages, and it has never caused me or my fellow developers any
problems. As for documentation, "Function X is an alias of Function Y"
does not take up much room, does it?
> Aliases should be deprecated, warnings issued for several versions, and then removed.
It's relatively simple and painless process -- it's search & replace
for godsakes.
You are assuming that each of the 23 million sites that use PHP have
programming staff on hand to perform these "clean up" operations with
every new release of PHP. How wrong you are! A large number do not
have any programming staff at all, they just use open source scripts
and expect them to work. If they have to spend a fortune in buying new
scripts they might as well switch to a new and reliable language. I
hear Ruby on Rails is getting *very* good reviews.
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