On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 8:02 AM Mark Randall <marandall@php.net> wrote:
> On 15/03/2021 22:18, Levi Morrison via internals wrote:
> > Like any other case insensitive symbol PHP works with that comes from
> > userland, I would lower it in the engine's side of things. I would not
> > push the lowercase requirement on the API.
>
> That was the first design, however it required re-creating the array
> with potentially many thousands of new strings which slowed it down
> considerably.
>
> As I envisenge this to be used with machine generated data, having it
> use lowercase would not be an issue.
>
If lower case key names weren't a requirement for the user, but the engine
worked on lower case keys, how would something like this behave:
$map['myClass'] = '/path/to/lib/myclass1.php'
$map['myclass'] = '/path/to/lib/myclass2.php'
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