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Filter component from Zend Framework
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Question: Why filter? Whats about "converter"? #52

Closed GodLesZ closed 7 years ago

GodLesZ commented 7 years ago

Hey folks, this is just a naming question and belongs more or less to a definition.

In a business project I've to extend some classes to format values in a decent way. For example a decimal number into a price with 2 decimal places, € sign and so on.

Following the PHP naming, this is number formatting (see number_format()). But following the zend naming, this is a number filter (namespace Zend\Filter).

So my question is: why you (Zend tech leads/designer 🤝 ) chose zend-filter and not converter for formatter?

Ocramius commented 7 years ago

@GodLesZ that's a very good question, but I don't think that the "transformer" and "formatter" name was very popular in 2010~2011 (when the component was first conceived).

Possibly a good candidate for rename, but 6 years in it's too late for that.