Re: PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6

Hi all, On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>wrote: > > 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): > > What would function_exists('Foo') return when foo() is defined? > > If false, then this code: > > if (!function_exists('Foo')) { > function Foo() { ... } > } > > would not work. If true, then this code: > > if(function_exists('Foo')) { > Foo(); > } > > would not work. Both are working fine now and there's no real reason why > shouldn't they keep working. > > Additionally, making the engine case-sensitive would simplify some areas > of function/class handling. But making it inconsistently partially > case-sensitive would instead complicate it, as we now would have to make > additional checks against original name before calling. > > My opinion is if we go case-sensitive, it must be full case sensitivity, > no exceptions. +1 for full case sensitivity, no exceptions. We may provide compatibility check and conversion scripts using tokenizer module. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net