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. I have read excatly the same suggestion in the archive on http://marc.theaimsgroup.com but not the definitely-should-exist thread. Would you show me those posts please? Wei He > > 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 > > >