Re: Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols

If the core functionality remains ASCII based then there is no need to drop case insensitivity, but if there is a move to better multi-lingual support, then it may be necessary for compatibility with Unicode? Sent from my android device so the quoting is crap! -----Original Message----- From: Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Dugan <mike@mjdugan.com>, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, David Muir <davidkmuir@gmail.com>, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com>, "nf.laupretre@yahoo.fr" <nf.laupretre@yahoo.fr>, Kevin Israel <pleasestand@live.com> Sent: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 6:25 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Mike Dugan <mike@mjdugan.com> wrote: >> Development should also be a consideration, I see a lot of developers using Windows for >> local development (even on the irc channels). These are the same ones who are, in my experience, >> less likely to be aware of solutions like Vagrant just as much as the subtleties of case sensitivity >> across operating systems. > > I think we coul be more realistic here. > > In my opinion the pains introduced by such a change does not match > with any possible gains. Many areas affect the request time badly > (IOs, mem, etc), I do not see case insensitivity as one, even if it > may look very bad if a simple small script is taken as example of the > slowdown (obviously worst case). > > I am not saying discussing that is bad, but it may not be the most > important thing to spend time on :) Agree.. I am afraid that will never happen(case-sesentive class/function name) in the whole php life thanks > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Xinchen Hui @Laruence http://www.laruence.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php