Re: PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6

I'm all for casing consistency. I'm very much *against* all-out case sensitivity. I don't want it to be possible to define a function foo and a function Foo that do different things. So essentially, I would like to see case sensitivity at call time (called name must match declaration), but case insensitivity at declaration time (when checking whether a symbol has already been declared): // no change function foo() {} function Foo() {} // error, cannot redeclare function foo // new behaviour foo(); // works Foo(); // error, called name inconsistent with declared name Thanks, Chris On 26 January 2014 19:07, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Good evening all, > > With the recent discussions making it likely we'll start thinking about > things to add, and more importantly, break in PHP 6, I'd like to bring up > the topic of case-sensitivity in PHP again. > > Would it be possible for us to finally be consistent in PHP 6, with > everything being case-sensitive (or case-insensitive, as the case may be)? > It would be a quite major backwards-compatibility break, but it would also > be one that an automated tool could easily fix your code for. Perhaps > something like Python's 2to3. > > Thoughts? > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >