Re: Is the case of <?php important in any way?

From: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:12:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Is the case of <?php important in any way?
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On 26 April 2010 15:08, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 04:51, Richard Quadling > <rquadling@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I've recently come across some third party code which uses ... >> >> <?PHP >> >> as the PHP tag. >> >> This is the first time I've seen PHP in upper case for the tag. >> >> The code works in V5, so, from this, I can assume the tag is read case >> insensitive. >> >> Are there any issues with this when moving forward? > >    Glance through some of the user notes on the site and you'll see > that some folks prefer to use UPPER-CASE <?PHP as opposed to > lower-case <?php.  It's always worked just fine.  In fact, I remember > a PHP3 site that someone wrote (.phtml and .php3 files!) that used > UPPER-CASE in every file, including for variables and functions.  I > don't remember having to modify that part to work (but thinking how > much I'd love to break the person's CAPS LOCK off the keyboard > permanently). > >> When Unicode support is re-committed to trunk, does case sensitivity >> become part of this? > >    From this, I gather you meant to send this to Internals, but > still, I wouldn't anticipate any change in case-sensitivity regarding > any part of the engine that hasn't yet required such.  Opening tags, > functions, operators, et cetera.  User-defined things like variables > will be case-sensitive, of course, but only the lamest of the lame > would appreciate otherwise.  ;-P > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net > http://www.parasane.net/ || ‚>k > X€cÃ_7™¬«�Ôhttp://www.pilotpig.net/ > We now offer SAME-DAY SETUP on a new line of servers! > Thanks Dan. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling

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