[Joeri]

The library is C's fault. PHP is basically a scripting language around the standard C library. It's what makes it the fastest non-JIT scripting language, but also what makes it so inconsistent.

[Retra]

It's not really a matter of fault. If being a wrapper around C is a problem, it's a problem PHP designers made, for better or worse. That's not C's fault.

[theseoafs]

So are Lua and Python and Ruby, but they're not "inconsistent".

[jack9]

That's a matter of perspective. Inconsistency is not objective and Lua has PLENTY of warts (46 max upvalues?)