Re: Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols
| From: | Paul Dragoonis | Date: | Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:16:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols | ||
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Hi Francois,
It's too big of a BC change firstly.
Secondly it has no language benefit or developer benefit.
The only benefit is case correctness which is a nice to have. Making sure
existing code works is a must have.
Cheers,
Paul
On 20 Dec 2014 22:01, "F & N Laupretre" <nf.laupretre@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I don't know if this was discussed before. So, tell me what you think
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> I write an RFC.
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> I would like to propose that namespaces, functions, and classes become
> case-sensitive (constants are already case-sensitive). Actually, I never
> understood why they are case-insensitive. Even if the performance gain is
> negligible, I think it could be the right time to question this.
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> Regards
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> Francois
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