Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?

On 12 September 2017 17:45:46 BST, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: >The rest of my message only makes sense once you understand I was >proposing unified case sensitivity for all symbols *and* merging them >into one table. Ah, OK, so I partially missed the point. I'm still not sure what you're suggesting is sensible, though... >> If we want function and class references, they should have their own, >>unambiguous, syntax. I stand by this assertion. Consider the following statement: $foo = bar; Even if "bar" cannot *simultaneously* be the name of a function, a class, and a constant, it can still *potentially* be any of the three, from the point of view of the compiler. So, far from allowing us to make nice inferences about function references vs strings-that-look-callable, we have now *broken* assumptions we could previously have made. It seems like we'd just be adding another equally ambiguous way of writing the same code. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]