Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants?
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:40:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? | ||
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 10:29:26AM +0100, Tony Marston wrote:
> People keep telling me that switching between upper and lower case
> for all character sets in the universe is not 100% simple because of
> a small number of exceptions. So what? Identify the exceptions and
> write code which deals with them.
Thereby increasing the complexity of the PHP engine - which means more bugs and
slower execution. It also makes it harder for the user to understand: they need
to get their heads round the corner cases.
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