Re: [Zend Engine 2] Constants (was: delete construct)

Hello, Jon Parise wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:40:19AM -0600, Jason Greene wrote: > > > I really would like to see php become case sensitive, the > > problem is that that kind of change would break alot of > > backwards compatibility. It also does slightly increase the > > difficulty level of the language. If I had to vote on it, I > > would say that I am for it, but I can tell you that you would > > get alot of negative feedback on that for the above mentioned > > reasons > > We have enough problems on the PEAR lists with developers not > wanting to conform to any given naming convention. That appears > to indicate that they'd prefer to code things in their own way. It is not developers do not want to conform to ANY given naming conventions, but rather often that they already follow consistently conventions that are different than those that you borrowed from Horde to PEAR. I already suggested that instead of pushing your conventions that are not necessarily the only ones that are right, PEAR rules could be changed in such way the code in PEAR should preserve the conventions of the original contributor, which could default to the current PEAR rules if the original developer does not follow any conventions consistently. I think that if you become this open minded, you will see more people willing to contribute to PEAR in the future. The ball is in your court. > I agree with you when it comes to writing _you own code_, but I > often see things like this: > > mysql_query() > mysql_Query() > MySQL_query() > > ... so I think it would just make things confusing for end-users. > > I agree, however, that it would be a good thing to add to the > language. I'm just not sure it's a good idea to add it. > > Constants should be case-sensitive, though, but I think that's > already been done. I don't see a problem is making case sensitiveness an PHP option that it is up to each developer to enable or not, maybe in php.ini or with ini_set() or something like that. It would work similarly to use strict; of Perl that in the case requires variables to be declared. Regards, Manuel Lemos