Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort

From: Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:06:36 +0000
Subject: Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort
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At 17:29 9/2/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
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.
Yeah, no doubt these go hand in hand. Zeev

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