Re: Case insensitivity weakened the power of overloading

At 15:51 18/05/2003, Jani Taskinen wrote:

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, I'm personally sick and tired of living my life in a loop. Yes, there are certain issues where there's a bunch of people on internals@ that would like to see things changed, and you know what, they won't. Why? Because that's the way they used to be, that's the way they were when you joined the project, and those that forged this project believe that they're key factors to the project's success, or that changing them would seriously hurt the project in general. A fundamental issue like case sensitivity falls in that category. So does the decision to bundle key libraries, a decision reached by the PHP Group in January 2000. When you joined the project, you acknowledged it was something you were willing to live with. The fact that people who care about these things are already fed up with discussing them again and again, and that there are random majorities on internals@ against them, is NOT going to change it. As I said once, when is it time to end the discussion? Once we reach a decision that *you* are happy with? Before you answer "Yes! :)", the answer is no! Zeev