Fabien explained his reasoning many months ago (I'm not sure if it was on this mailing list or GitHub). IIRC, it's capitalized as a proper noun because the data type is named after George Boole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_data_type
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Oleg Stepura <[email protected]>wrote: > > All primitive types should be lowercased except for Boolean which should > be uppercase. > > Why Boolean should be uppercase? It's also PHP primitive and with an upper > case it confuses IDE. It can also confuse the man reading the code sinse > nobody can forbid you create a class with a name Boolean inside your > namespace. I can't find any pros. > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en > -- jeremy mikola -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
