RE: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] [Fwd: Re: [Zend Engine 2] Case sensitivity:Conclusion(?)]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > After careful consideration on the CS issue I must say I > agree with John here. The _only_ case where I feel CS is a > problem, is when dealing with other environments. But the > price for changing this today is simply too high. It should > have been done in PHP 3.0. We have other BC issues to soak > our brains in. Actually i should agree with that, because it sounds reasonable. But there are a few things that hinder me. PHP isn't really case-insensitiv, as variable names are already case-sensitiv. Thus beginners are even more confused. Try to explain a beginner that functions are case-insensitive, variables are case-sensitive and constants can be either or. Isn't _that_ confusing ? Have you ever been looking to a beginners BASIC code? John may be right when he says, that it is easier to start with an case-insensitiv language. Case sensitiv languages may be a pain in the ass at first, but as soon as you understand things, your code will be ways cleaner. Natural languages (English, German, ... everything else ?) are case-sensitiv too. oR HavE yOu evEr seEn soMEonE wRITiNg lIKE thIs ? > HOWEVER, I would like to suggest one compromise: storing > class names (and maybe function names) exactly as they were > spelled in the definition, and have get_class() etc. return > that version instead of the lowercased one. This would at > least make us able to expose interfaces with the intended case. > > -1 from me on case sensitivity in ZE2, +1 on storing "pretty names" would be an a acceptable solution, but would lead to further inconsistency, as one could write case-sensitiv extensions (i'd do :). harald. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 iQA/AwUBPGJX+a1+myS9SSHxEQLSeQCgoelqujswN1pu62yq+/YDb0F6Y7YAoNcE AKSYHB14fFa8F9ohf0wxDTX4 =M455 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----