Re: PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6
I think having a case sensitive nature would be very helpful to the
language, especially in terms of portability in the age of autoloaders and
translating class names to directory paths. I'm all for this.
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good evening all,
>
> With the recent discussions making it likely we'll start thinking about
> things to add, and more importantly, break in PHP 6, I'd like to bring up
> the topic of case-sensitivity in PHP again.
>
> Would it be possible for us to finally be consistent in PHP 6, with
> everything being case-sensitive (or case-insensitive, as the case may be)?
> It would be a quite major backwards-compatibility break, but it would also
> be one that an automated tool could easily fix your code for. Perhaps
> something like Python's 2to3.
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> Andrea Faulds
> http://ajf.me/
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>
Thread (15 messages)