Hey Alain, > On 20 Dec 2014, at 22:52, Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:45:39PM +0000, Andrea Faulds wrote: > >> I would like to see more case uniformity, but I think this is the less >> practical direction. Instead of making everything case-sensitive, we should >> make everything case-insensitive, which would break far less stuff, and is a >> smaller change. That’d mean constants, variable names and properties would >> need changing, everything else is already case-insensitive. > > As I said: this is only partly true; true if you are a Brit or a Yank ... > everyone else who has alphabetics that are represented by bytes with the top > bit > set sees them as case sensitive in those parts.
That’s true. Although mixing English and another language in source code isn’t a terribly good idea anyway. > It is a BC break, but a very unusual one in that once code is fixed in, say > PHP > 7, it would continue to work when copies back to a PHP 5 environment. This isn’t that unusual among BC breaks, honestly. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
