Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort

From: Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:29:30 +0000
Subject: Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort
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On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Being case-sensitive in function names was something that Andi and I wanted > to do in the days of the initial PHP 3.0 parser (and the initial parser was > indeed case sensitive, and actually didn't allow functions and variables > with the same name, like C :). We decided to give this up because PHP/FI > 2.0 was already around with 15,000 domains. We should have had more vision :I > > At any rate, enabling case sensitivity is possible and very easy to do. We > can easily do it selectively, so that it can be configured in the INI file > or even in runtime. We need to think about it some more, though, and > decide whether this is a good idea. If you do it for functions, do it for classes as well. -Andrei "The secret of flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss." -- Douglas Adams

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