Posted by Brian Kendig on 07/12/07 19:40

On Jul 11, 8:53 am, ZeldorBlat <zeldorb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 4:41 pm, Brian Kendig <b...@enchanter.net> wrote:
> > Well, I don't have THAT much foresight. I don't want to go using
> > wrappers for every built-in PHP function on the off chance that
> > someday I might want to extend their functionality. :)
>
> Why not?

It adds overhead, it reduces readability and increases the chances for
typos (what if I made a mistake in one of my wrappers?), it's
unnecessary for the vast majority of the time, and in the rare cases
when it *would* be useful I might decide to do something differently
so I'd probably have to go edit large swaths of my code anyway.

Putting a wrapper around every built-in PHP function just in case I
might someday want to extend it is like wrapping every item in my home
in bubble wrap just in case I might someday hit my head on it.

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