Re: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

From: Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:02:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist
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Hello internals, Saturday, August 13, 2005, 2:58:26 PM, you wrote: > Hello Derick, > Saturday, August 13, 2005, 2:17:52 PM, you wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Sara Golemon wrote: >>> > 7. Make identifiers case-sensitive >>> > >>> Or perhaps optionally case sensitive? I dunno, I've made my peace with PHP >>> being (mostly) case-insensitive. >> We can't make it optional... that would be just too much problems for >> writing portable scripts. > hu? How isn't always using the right casing un-portable if allowing > case-insensitivity also? You mean becuase one might use > function bullshit()...and > function Bullshit()...and > function bullShit()...? > If so, i guess you know how to write portable apps - test them with > everything supported - in this case with and w/o case-insensitivity. > Thus your argument is untrue. And the try of disproval above, look > at the used names. to prevent confusion with more readers - i am against an ini option here. Either keep the way it is right now or make everything case sensitive. And of course i like speed which is support for the latter to be clear. Best regards, Marcus

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