[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.