Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.1 & Declaration Case Persistance

[Sterling Hughes]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Colin Viebrock wrote:

> > I don't think it is trivial to implement this without:
> > a) Creating a second version of our hash tables (I don't like duplicate
> code).
> > b) Adding more complexity to the already complex hash tables.
>
> I don't know enough about Zend internals to speak with any authority, but
> wouldn't an "easy" way of doing this be to:
>
> a) store *only* the mixed case version of the class name in the hash table,
> and
> b) change get_class(), etc. so that they automatically pass the result
> through strtolower() (or whatever) first ... unless the optional second
> argument is passed, in which case it's just returned as is.
>
> You wouldn't need a bigger nor an additional hash table, AFAICT, and only
> what I imagine is relatively minor code changes to the get_class(), etc.
> functions.
>

Not really, the class name's are stored in lowercase, for case-insensitive
lookups, therefore, every single time the engine needs to look up the
class name it would need to convert the case of the class name to lower
case.

-Sterling


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