Re: Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols

On 22 December 2014 at 01:43, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Hey, > > > On 21 Dec 2014, at 23:33, David Muir <davidkmuir@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The insensitivity makes code brittle. Sometimes the same code will run > fine, and other times it breaks depending on what lines triggered the auto > loader. If you instantiate a Foo instance first, then instantiate a new > foo, the code runs fine, but if you try to instantiate a new foo first, we > get a fatal error. > > I’d say that’s not the fault of insensitivity, but the fault of > poorly-written autoloaders. I'd like to know if there's an autoloader that handles case sensitivity without O(2^n) stat calls worst-case scenario (N being namespace/class name parts chars). A stricts standards warning in case of type sensitivity issues after a class with the same was already loaded would make a lot of sense: class Foo {} $foo = new Foo; $bar = ($foo instanceof foo); // stricts standards Same goes for type-hints in methods, as those may break reflection (which triggers autoloading). Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/