Re: PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6
I'm all for casing consistency. I'm very much *against* all-out case
sensitivity. I don't want it to be possible to define a function foo
and a function Foo that do different things.
So essentially, I would like to see case sensitivity at call time
(called name must match declaration), but case insensitivity at
declaration time (when checking whether a symbol has already been
declared):
// no change
function foo() {}
function Foo() {} // error, cannot redeclare function foo
// new behaviour
foo(); // works
Foo(); // error, called name inconsistent with declared name
Thanks, Chris
On 26 January 2014 19:07, 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?
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