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MichaelGG on Dec 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were ...

Even with the "PHP is a personal hack", it doesn't make sense. More effort goes into naming functions than writing a one-line xor "hash".

I'm more inclined to believe Rasmus is trolling here. Sure, he used strlen, but it's too hard to believe functions were named with this in mind.

ma2rten on Dec 17, 2013 [–]

I think the point is that it is simple to add symbols in the C source code. You simply count the number of characters and then add it in the appropriate place.

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