[wp-hackers] load_plugin_textdomain()

[Omry Yadan]

messy API is an issue.

in the long run, it's more costly to keep a messy API than to fix it once.


I believe I would have create a new function (different name) and 
deprecate the old one.

and completely remove it after a few major versions.



Jason Webster wrote:

> Would you have rather broken everything that used the old way? I fail 
> to see how this is an issue.
>
> Omry Yadan wrote:
>> very Microsoft like approach.
>>
>> see Win32 API for all sorts of marvelous examples.
>>
>>
>> Jason Webster wrote:
>>
>>> Not really. It allows for backwards compatibility and the option to 
>>> use the new method, all in one pretty little package.
>>>>
>>>> That's a very nasty was to improve an API:
>>>> create another optional argument which overwrites the previous 
>>>> arguments?!
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