On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:54 -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > On 5/22/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yours is the least maintainable. > > Hehe.. with 4 times as many lines of code and 160% more bytes of code overall? > > > cat locale.php|grep -v ^$|wc -l > 16 > > > cat simple.php|grep -v ^$|wc -l > 4 > > > > ls -lavh > -rw-r--r-- 1 destiney destiney 347B May 22 17:35 locale.php > -rw-r--r-- 1 destiney destiney 133B May 22 17:35 simple.php > > > Watch me switch this from English to Spanish: > > #$days = array( 'Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', > 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday' ); > $days = array( 'Domingo', 'Lunes', 'Martes', 'Miércoles', 'Jueves', > 'Viernes', 'Sábado' ); > > Tada! That was the easiest maintenance programming ever. Sure, but you need to do that whenever the locale changes. I don't need to change anything for the weekday names to be portable across all locales. And yes I know, as you pointed out, the OP didn't say anything about locale *shrug*. IMHO your solution is still inferior... but I guess you like it that way. > > I have nothing to learn from you that I > > didn't learn in kindergarten. > > They didn't teach PHP where I attended kindergarten. Is that a Canadian thing? Exactly, and I'm not about to learn PHP from you now *lol*. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
