At 12:03 AM -0700 7/23/03, Michael G Schwern wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >> It is possible to configure a build of Perl to use case sensitive >> symbols on any somewhat recent compiler/OS version, but this behavior >> is not the default. > >Why isn't that the default?
We'd have to know (or determine at compile-time) whether the compiler had this capability, bearing in mind that first release is not necessarily stable release. We'd then need to test the new default on a range of systems, hoping we covered all the compiler versions that are likely to be found in the wild. When we're done we'd have fixed some problems but created others, such as inability to resolve symbols when linking against external libraries that were not built with case preservation enabled. In short, I think it's a good option to have. It might be a good default for Perl 6. But I don't think it makes sense to make it the default for Perl 5. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
