Saner check names

[jbrooksuk]

Some of the checks are inconsistent. A few begin with check and others don't. Ideally we'd make the names short but sweet. This would require a lot of changes in the config files, but it'd end with nicer configuration values.

[jbrooksuk]

Also, this would have to be marked as a script breaking change - unless we can add aliases?

[jbrooksuk]

What do you think @tchule?

[tchule]

Agree.

At the beginning there was no "checkXXX", I started adding them to order the methods in the IDE. But if we manage to separate the checks (or some of them) from the main code, we should adopt shorter names.

[jbrooksuk]

Would you agree with names such as unusedVariables and unusedFunctionParameters?

[tchule]

Yes, looks good to me.

[tchule]

On a slightly different but still related subject, I've updated an old task on the google code site : https://code.google.com/p/phpcheckstyle/issues/detail?id=1

I've started to try to implement something but I'm not really decided yet on the proper way to do this.

[jbrooksuk]

Good idea. I think the best thing to do is each check is passed the Reporter and the token stack etc. This way it's able to decide how to handle each check individually.

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[jbrooksuk]

Perhaps even using under scores in names?

• unused_variables
• line_length

Easier to read?

[jbrooksuk]

We could always run the names through a converter, so camelCase could still be default, but it could auto convert snake_case etc? This just allows for easy mistakes etc.

[jbrooksuk]

@tchule just a quick check that you're happy with the suggested naming conventions before I go and change them?

[tchule]

Personnaly I prefer the camelCase version, klike you proposed "unusedVariables" and "unusedFunctionParameters". But I'm OK with both.

[jbrooksuk]

Ok, well we can easily accept both - a quick conversion would fix it - but we in the documentation and example we would always use camelCase?

[tchule]

Yes, this would be perfect.

[jbrooksuk]

@tchule here's what I'm thinking:

• Tests that use a regexp should change from constantNaming to constantNamePattern, so you know it's an expected format.
• Where we've reduced works like statement to stmt we should undo that. Its much more readable to have spaceAfterControlStatement, although it's longer, it's more verbose.
• We should drop the check from keys like checkProhibitedFunctions so just prohibitedFunctions.
• showTODOs could just be showTodo for camelCase-ness.

My thoughts are for readability and verbosity, but still keeping them short where possible. What do you think?

Also, they read better in snake_case too:

• constant_naming_pattern
• space_after_control_statement
• prohibited_functions
• show_todos

:)