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I keep hearing about PHP's "function parameter order inconsistencies". Has that ever been a real problem for anyone? Guess not. Auto-completion got your back an

I keep hearing about PHP's "function parameter order inconsistencies". Has that ever been a real problem for anyone? Guess not. Auto-completion got your back and it's debatable if these are real 'inconsistencies' anyway. The amount of really really helpful built-in PHP functions for a lot of common tasks more than makes up for this. Definitely hear you on the lack of PHP developers with an understanding of OOP and all though. Seen it myself when my previous company tried to hire one, the 'range' of people applying is incredible.

waterlesscloud 16y ago
The inconsistencies are just more mental friction. It's not a huge cost, but it's no benefit either. If you can avoid such friction, why wouldn't you?
- soulclap 16y ago
  Completely getting your point that it could be annoying for some people out there. It never bothered me though and while this is not really a strong argument, it's always one of the first things to come up when people talk about PHP's flaws. If it really bugs you it could easily be solved with a few helper/wrapper functions. (Besides that, regarding elegance of syntax, there's no doubt that most other languages used for web dev'ing are lightyears ahead of PHP.)
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