Re: Classes & function names

At 01:29 PM 5/4/2001 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:

I think that there are two ways to look at the issue that John raised. One, is a cosmetic change, that would add a bit of bloat to classes, and retain another name in them. Allowing access to it using some specialized function (get_beautiful_class_name() or something like that). The other, is a more fundamental change, and it is to change PHP to be case dependant. PHP 4.0 follows the standard set by PHP/FI 2.0 (or earlier), and maintains case sensitivity for variable names, but not function names or class names. IMHO, there's very little reason for this inconsistency, and PHP would have been better off with full case sensitivity across class names, function names and variable names. It would also improve performance fairly significantly. IMHO, in a compatibility breaking upgrade, we should look into defaulting to case sensitivity, while allowing case insensitivity as a non-default option.

I wouldn't mind that and then both John and me would be happy :) Andi