[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6481: Fancy permalinks should be enabled on new sites

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#6481: Fancy permalinks should be enabled on new sites
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  4.2
Component:  Permalinks              |     Version:  2.7
 Severity:  minor                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by ericlewis):

 Replying to [comment:60 valendesigns]:
 > Probably, or is the wrong way to go? I would prefer a `function_exists`
 check around all functions, but that's just my preference and one I'm
 willing change if needed. Where did you read or hear that it's an anti-
 pattern?

 JeremyClarke added this to the
 [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pluggable_Functions Pluggable Functions Codex
 page] a while ago:
 > Pluggable functions are no longer being added to WordPress core. All new
 functions instead use filters on their output to allow for similar
 overriding of their functionality.

 I wasn't around for 1.5 when pluggable functions were introduced. Someone
 with a better historical perspective can chime in here, but my thought is
 pluggable functions make backwards compatibility harder. You have to
 support a developer doing anything in the world they want to in their
 version of the function. Offering developers a hook to noop a function
 with their callback [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.1/src
 /wp-includes/option.php#L45 as in the options API] gives more control over
 changing the internals of a function. Also, as only one function can be
 defined in PHP, two plugins can't both play nicely in this context. The
 hooks API is a stable, robust way to extend functionality.

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