Re: Case insensitivity weakened the power of overloading
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Sun, 18 May 2003 14:44:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Case insensitivity weakened the power of overloading | ||
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At 16:29 18/05/2003, Wei He wrote:
Just I want to know the reason not doing CS.Simply put, backwards compatibility. If PHP was released today, it would have been case sensitive. And yes, there are plenty of other people, some on this list and many that aren't, that object to going to case sensitivity because of this reason exactly. By the way, if what you worry about is bridging with external object models like Java, COM or GTK - you don't have to worry. Only PHP objects are case insensitive. The OO overloading layer in ZE2 supports case-sensitive method calls. Zeev