On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:24:29PM +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> a) There are almost no constants in PHP which are case-insensitive (which 
> aren't user land defined with define()).  Actually the only ones I could 
> find are in the Zend Engine such as TRUE & FALSE which makes sense. All PHP 
> extensions which use REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT() and friends use the CONST_CS 
> (case-sensitive flag). I would like to change these macros to *always* 
> register as case-sensitive. Unless I missed some extensions this shouldn't 
> bite anyone as all extensions seem to use CONST_CS. Of course I won't 
> change the special purpose constants such as TRUE & FALSE which are today 
> registered as case-insensitive. What do you guys think?

I think that makes a lot of sense.  Go for it.
 
> b) REGISTER_MAIN_LONG_CONSTANT() and friends (notice the MAIN) are used to 
> register constants which shouldn't be unloaded when the PHP extension is 
> unloaded. I can't think of many cases where this is applicable. For 
> example, if the pspell extension is unloaded I think all of its constants 
> should be unloaded too. However, this extension is one example of an 
> extension using the _MAIN_ macro. Can each of you check your extension and 
> move to REGISTER_LONG_CONSTANT() unless there's a good reason not to?
 
I can't think of a good reason why an extension should leave any
remnants of itself lying around once it's unloaded.

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Jon Parise ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member

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