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.
>
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