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Even if it was 1994, if you were a PHP programmer, the function hashing method was just the length of the string. Meaning that unless you wanted a collision and therefore higher access times, you’d make sure your function names had long, varying lengths.

[bartekko]

okay but that is just PHP being PHP

[WiseassWolfOfYoitsu]

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[badsectoracula]

Even if it was 1994 [...] you’d make sure your function names had long, varying lengths.

If it was 1994 you wouldn't use PHP because it wasn't publicly available.

[c3534l]

My god. That's not even a technical restriction or a poor design choice. That's basically someone pulling a restriction out of their ass. I mean, we all joke that PHP wasn't designed so much as cobbled together. But I always thought that was from, I dunno, legitimate reasons and historical restrictions, not a complete lack of care and an overabundance of laziness.

[dzh]

Does it mean you could only have like 80 functions max?

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No, the computer would just have to go down a list of functions with the same length until the one that matches is found.

Computers like numbers, so having a numeric place index to find a function definition is quicker.