Changing lines like this: "extract( $dbw->tableNames( 'page', 'archive' ) );" to...

Changing lines like this: "extract( $dbw->tableNames( 'page', 'archive' ) );" to be like this: "list ($page, $archive) = $dbw->tableNamesN( 'page', 'archive' );".

Three reasons for this:
1) It's better for analysis tools [which want explicit variable declaration]
2) It's easier for a human to read, as it's completely explicit where the variables came from [which is something you don't get with extract() ]
3) It makes it easier to find everywhere where a variable is used with search/grep [which you can't currently do with $tbl_page variables from things like: "extract($db->tableNames( 'page', 'revision'), EXTR_PREFIX_ALL, 'tbl');"].

Otherwise, from a functionality/efficiency perspective the two forms should be identical.

By doing this have been able run static analysis over the usages of these variables, thus eliminating 5 unneeded table names from calls, plus removing 3 unused calls entirely, and it just feels subjectively slightly nicer to me.