On 4 May 2010 13:14, Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net> wrote: > The options are: > > 1. Apply Tomas's patch to make case-insensitive lookups > locale-ignorant. Pros: fixes immediate problem. Cons: breaks BC for > case-insensitive function/method name lookups for high-bit characters > in single-byte encodings. (Not that we've ever advertised or > documented that.) > > 2. Make function/method names case-sensitive, per Stan's e-mail. Pros: > fixes problem; brings PHP into line with most other languages; extra > consistency with variables; possible performance improvement. Cons: BC > break from current documented behaviour. > > 3. Do nothing. Pros: no BC breaks of any kind. Cons: continues to > annoy Turkish and Azeri developers and those developing for those > locales.
+1 for Option 2. Coming from languages where are case sensitive it has never occurred to me that PHP wasn't case sensitive. So no BC for at least 1 user! -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
