[Udo]

Removing things from a language is a difficult proposition. I think increasingly a case could be made for a cleanup of many of the core functions, and I personally would remove some of the OO sugar coating added as of late. But that's probably more trouble than it's worth.

As core function naming and argument order is a pet peeve of mine, I would welcome a cleaned-up API2.0 if you will, while beginning the long phase-out of the old one.

I would agree though that some features should not have been added in the first place. But they're in now, and once they are in they should probably stay in for a while.

[manuletroll]

That's pretty much what I had in mind with this comment, I should have expanded it a bit. What grates on my nerves when writing PHP is indeed the awfully inconsistent standard library. Though some syntax choices (namespaces for instance) are also pretty weird.

[Udo]

Maybe someone should fork the parser/lexer and see what a cleanup can accomplish. There are a few tons of "features" I would delete immediately. And I agree the namespace syntax is horrible.