[wp-hackers] Everybody Stop

[Mark Jaquith]

And your suggestion is the only one that is at least partially in use in 
WordPress already.  It doesn't require changing anything in the index 
template (like the of the other suggestions).  All that would happen is 
that functions that don't have a get_ version would be moved to 
get_function_name() and function_name() would be changed to echo 
get_function_name().  Besides just having a few more functions (very 
small ones, at that), I can't see the downside to this.  I can't see a 
downside in terms of backwards compatibility, in terms of beginner 
users, or in terms of usability for expert users.  Everybody wins (or at 
least, no one loses).

Brian Meidell wrote:

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> Matt Mullenweg wrote:
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>> If you're not going to check the assertions you make in discussion, 
>> please keep them to yourself. The only thing you would ever encode is 
>> ampersands, which people should be aware of anyway to avoid 
>> validation problems.
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> I don't understand what you mean. The ampersands would be in PHP code, 
> not in the output, so they would never mess with the validation unless 
> the function merely output it's argument string.
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>> When proposing changes to existing functions, please keep in mind 
>> backwards compatibility.
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> My suggestion is still the only one that is entirely backwards 
> compatible as far as I can tell.
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> /Brian
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