Re: Classes & function names

On Fri, 04 May 2001, 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. +1. -Andrei It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail. -- Neal Stephenson