> But nothing even approaching a full reorg/rename of the stdlib.
It's been a long tradition in the PHP world to keep the PHP side of a module somewhat consistent with the underlying C API that the module exposes.
On the one side, people with a C background immediately find themselves at home in PHP - on the other side, "new" programmers coming from the Java, Go or the matured JS world are confused because of all the inconsistencies.
It's been a long tradition in the PHP world to keep the PHP side of a module somewhat consistent with the underlying C API that the module exposes.
On the one side, people with a C background immediately find themselves at home in PHP - on the other side, "new" programmers coming from the Java, Go or the matured JS world are confused because of all the inconsistencies.