Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

2017-09-12 14:02 GMT+02:00 Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>: > Hi everybody! > > Usually constant identifiers are treated case-sensitive in PHP. This is > always the case for constants defined via a const declaration. > However, define() allows to pass TRUE as third argument to define a > case-insensitive constant. This feature appears to potentially result > in confusion, and also causes bugs as shown in > <https://bugs.php.net/74450>. See an example created by > Nikita to see > some probably unexpected behavior: <https://3v4l.org/L6nCpjÌÁ=G}•>¦uY\ > sù>. > > Even if these issues could be resolved, I still think allowing both > case-sensitive and case-insensitive constant identifiers does more harm > than good, so either case-sensitive or case-insensitive constant > identifiers should be removed from the language. Since case-sensitive > constant identifiers are already the default, and HHVM doesn't even > support case-insensitive identifiers at all, I would suggest to remove > case-insensitive constant identifiers. > > This could be implemented by triggering E_DEPRECATED whenever the third > argument to define() is TRUE in PHP 7.3, and to remove this parameter > altogether in PHP 8. Most likely some further simplification in the > engine could be done then as well. > > Thoughts? > +1