On 5/23/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
Yeah, for case-insensitive functions would a bool be a lot better, like the strstr function, the current syntax is (also for the case-insensitive function stristr): string strstr ( string $haystack, string $needle ) It would be a lot better to have it like this: string strstr ( string $haystack, string $needle, bool $case_sensitive ) The trim functions are fine for me.. Tijnema -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
