Re: Case insensitivity weakened the power of overloading

On Sun, 18 May 2003, Zeev Suraski wrote: >Please read the archives, that's definitely a thread we don't need to reopen. Why not? It was again one of those discussions where everyone else were +1 and you just killed it. :-p --Jani >At 15:07 18/05/2003, Wei He wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Besides in-php use of class method/property overloading, >>XML-RCP can be a perfect application of this functionality. >> >>But again it touchs the sensitive topic of case sensitivity of Zend. >> >>With CS, an RPC call will be >> >>$rpcclient->methodname($arg1, $arg2); >> >>instead of >> >>$rpcclient->call($methodname, $arg1, $arg2); >> >>SOAP'w workaround of collecting all available methods >>is efficient and sometime not support by all XML-RPC servers. >>Especially when the method is also a dynamic call on the >>server side. Think of a Python(Zope) XML-RPC server. >> >>As Zend Engine 2 can change the world such a lot, why not just >>a little bit on class/method/function name's case sensitivity? >> >>When I am wriing this message, I'm compiling my PHP with CS patch. >>I noticed, besides some internal places like Zend, aggregate and overload >>need to be patched, the bundled PEAR also need to be patch to at least >>make the RPM buildable. >> >>I also saw how the author hates case insensitivities, so I'm not afraid >>of posting this issue again. >> >>Please give me some reasons why not. How about in Zend Engine 2? >> >>Wei He >> >> >> >>-- >>PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- <- For Sale! ->