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 string functions in particular are absolutely bloated, eg ltrim, trim & rtrim - WTF. Why not just have trim() and have the option of specifying whether left/right/both? The same goes for the case-sensitive and case-insensitive versions of functions. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php