Re: [Fwd: Re: [Zend Engine 2] Case sensitivity: Conclusion(?)]

From: Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:36:10 +0000
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Zend Engine 2] Case sensitivity: Conclusion(?)]
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Many scripts will break anyway if you update to PHP 5..

+1 (still) for case-sensitivity which would make the language
more conistent. Or if this is ruled out, then let's make all
variables and constants case-insensitive too. It is so confusing
for all the newbies when $FOO isn't same as $foo.

--Jani


On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Sander Steffann wrote:

>Hi,
>
>IMHO making PHP case sensitive after being case-INsensitive for so many
>years is a very bad idea. The reasons are already mentioned on the list. For
>us (ISP in The Netherlands) the most important one is BC. We would not be
>able to upgrade any of our servers when this would go into PHP5. A lot of
>our customers use PHP, and I think almost every customer would have scripts
>that break. (which is not acceptable ofcouse)
>
>Please don't do this... (That's a -1 from me)
>Sander.
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