Re: Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols

On 22 December 2014 at 01:52, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > On 22 Dec 2014, at 00:50, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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). > > Yes. Those running on Windows or OS X (both use case-insensitive > filesystems by default), > Except that nobody I know of runs production on a case-insensitive filesystem. those that convert the class name to lowercase, those that error on > non-lowercase class names, etc. > That's an interesting idea to be honest: could be brought up in the composer mailing list, I'd say. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/