Re: 4.1 & Declaration Case Persistance

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Colin Viebrock wrote: > > I don't think it is trivial to implement this without: > > a) Creating a second version of our hash tables (I don't like duplicate > code). > > b) Adding more complexity to the already complex hash tables. > > I don't know enough about Zend internals to speak with any authority, but > wouldn't an "easy" way of doing this be to: > > a) store *only* the mixed case version of the class name in the hash table, > and > b) change get_class(), etc. so that they automatically pass the result > through strtolower() (or whatever) first ... unless the optional second > argument is passed, in which case it's just returned as is. > > You wouldn't need a bigger nor an additional hash table, AFAICT, and only > what I imagine is relatively minor code changes to the get_class(), etc. > functions. > Not really, the class name's are stored in lowercase, for case-insensitive lookups, therefore, every single time the engine needs to look up the class name it would need to convert the case of the class name to lower case. -Sterling