Re: Flexible function naming

On 12/16/2013 07:30 PM, Rowan Collins wrote: > The core functions which follow neither rule include C-style > abbreviations like "strptime" which couldn't be automatically swapped to > either format, and complete anomalies like "nl2br". If you named those > functions as part of a consistent style, you would probably also follow > stronger naming conventions than Rasmus did when he named > "htmlspecialchars". Well, there were other factors in play there. htmlspecialchars was a very early function. Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen(). In order to get a nice hash distribution of function names across the various function name lengths names were picked specifically to make them fit into a specific length bucket. This was circa late 1994 when PHP was a tool just for my own personal use and I wasn't too worried about not being able to remember the few function names. -Rasmus