Re: Case sensitivity: Conclusion(?)

From: Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 05:13:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Case sensitivity: Conclusion(?)
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Jim Winstead wrote:
Yasuo Ohgaki <yasuo_ohgaki@yahoo.com> wrote:
I guess the original reason why PHP has case insensitive class/function names is consistency with HTML standard. If so, XHTML _is_ case sensitive, we should go for case sensitive names.
although only rasmus can say for sure, i'd say you are assuming way more thought went into the original decision than actually did.
It's just my guess. Question is, PHP is going to be nice to other web related technology or not. I hope most of users answer 'yes' for this :) Not? -- Yasuo Ohgaki

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