Syntax in PHP will always be an issue for just about all programmers out there, and this new battle that is raging on the php internals list about the use of "studlyCaps" in PHP function names.

The big debate that is going on is how the object-oriented side of things will be named. As you can read for yourself in this Huge thread on internals, there was a lot of flaming going back and forth regarding the use of studlyCaps. There were those that thought studlyCaps were "stupidCaps" and wanted methods to be named parse_file() instead of parseFile(). When it was all said and done studlyCaps seemed to have more favor, and so the decision was made to move to them.

What do you, readers of this blog, think? Are you in favor of studlyCaps or not for methods? Regardless, do you think having a consistency is important and it should either be all one or all the other? If the API is changed, are your scripts going to break (have you been writing important code based on PHP 5 already?) Let's hear from you!