Re: [Fwd: Re: [Zend Engine 2] Case sensitivity: Conclus ion(?)]
| From: | Gary Benson | Date: | Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:49:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Fwd: Re: [Zend Engine 2] Case sensitivity: Conclus ion(?)] | ||
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Brent R. Matzelle wrote:
> --- Marko Karppinen <markonen@php.net> wrote:
> >
> > >> However, we need vote for if PHP5 will have case
> > >> sensitive class/function/constant names.
> > >
> > > +1 for case-sensitive everything
> >
> > -1. Differentiating two objects only by the case of their names
> > seems absurd to me. This is not how humans function.
> >
> > Ease of implementation is the only thing speaking for
> > case-sensitiveness in
> > my book. Case-insensitiveness is always more work. But I think it's
> > well
> > worth the trouble.
> >
> > Hence case-insensitive, case-preserving is my suggestion.
>
> I believe that it should be up to the developer. Add a variable in
> php.ini that sets a PHP instance as case sensitive.
This kind of thing is a big pain when you are using a server you have no
control over. It's not so much of a pig as magic_quotes_gpc, but...
Gary
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