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Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by rad_gruchalski on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:21AM (#33829104)
Makes sense in the GDPR context.
Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by pavlov on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:36AM (#33829191)
Post-Brexit, GDPR is a dirty word in Britain though. It's part of the dreaded pan-European regulation that must be purged post haste.

So maybe it's:

  wont_you_please_have_this_delicious_guano_biscuit_imported_thanks_to_our_splendid_bilateral_trade_deal_with_vanuatu()
Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by grishka on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:56AM (#33829352)
Does PHP have a limit on the length of a function name?
Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by cardanome on Friday December 02, 2022 @07:44AM (#33829774)
> Generally, such a limit is imposed by the threat of violence from other folks who interact with your code.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4565805/is-there-a-limit...

So no.

Though funny side note, there is a historic reason that function names are so inconsistent in PHP: The length of the name of a function was used for hashing. So you wanted a to vary the length to achieve a roughly even distribution of lengths.

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70691

Re:If PHP Were British (2011) by rad_gruchalski on Friday December 02, 2022 @08:11AM (#33830002)
> Post-Brexit, GDPR is a dirty word in Britain though.

Okay, UK GDPR. My sincere apologies.