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

At 06:04 PM 2/6/2002 -0600, Jason Greene wrote:

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:13, Zeev Suraski wrote: While I agree with Marko's vote (I'm also very much against it), I derive my conclusion from a whole different perspective. Guys, we are not next to the drawing board right now. The specs were defined and the layout was laid years ago. At this point in time we're only supposed to change something like that if there's an overwhelming reason to do it, and none of the reasons mentioned falls into that category. The reasons to move to case sensitivity and the alternative ways we should handle them, in my opinion, are: - Speed. We can probably improve the typical case so that it's not any slower in runtime. - Interaction with external component systems - we can have case sensitivity implemented at the module level, especially with the Engine 2 infrastructure, and still remain case insensitive for regular PHP objects. - "It's just right". Well, I can totally agree with that, but only if we were next to the drawing board, which we're not. You left off language consistency between variable names, and function names. We are already completely redesigning OO which is like standing at the drawing board.

Engine 2 will not break scripts that badly (at least not in my opinion). The OO stuff is mainly adding new functionality. Changing function names will break scripts badly. There's a huge difference. Andi