Re: [Formsess-devel] function & class names

[Katana <ka...@ka...>]

> the subject with assign accepting arrays just made me start to thing
> about api compability to smarty.
> 
> Classes are named using studlyCaps but what about functions?
> Still both ways can be found in formsess (get_value(), hasErrors()).
> 
> Since smarty uses underscores in it's function names I vote for doing
> that in formsess too.
> (Everything else will confuse people, learning formsess is difficult enough)
Yes, I know.
I have partially fixed that issue, but the big problem now is Backward 
Compatibility...
As far as I'm concerned I'm more a studlyCaps user. It is the pear 
standard, and I like it better. I know it's not like that in smarty, but 
there ARE a few things I don't like in Smarty :)

Anyway, how would you handle the backward compatibility problem ? Create 
a method / function with the same name but the chosen convention, and 
mark the old name as deprecated but keep it working ? Another solution 
could be a wrapper class with the old function names, so that you can 
use the whole new ones without having the old ones poluting your memory ?

Bertrand