Re: PHP6 wiki page
Hi!
> operation. There are a ton of non-obvious things beyond simple string
> manipulation. String collation alone is massively complicated, for example.
Oh yes, and if somebody thinks case sensitivity is weird now, wait until
Unicode gets into play. There for some chars when you change the case
string length changes, and for some conversion is not roundtrip-safe.
And you have various long form/short form combining issues which means
you need to normalize everything on every corner. So letting Unicode
into things like identifiers opens a huge container of worms.
Also, if one wants to appreciate what other cans of worms are hiding
there, I recommend this oldie but goodie:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/214196
It's about Perl, but we'd have many of the same issues.
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