Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:100560 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95050 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2017 14:00:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2017 14:00:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk designates 185.153.204.204 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 185.153.204.204 mail4.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [185.153.204.204] ([185.153.204.204:60586] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F4/31-19300-8E939B95 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:00:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 24929 invoked by uid 89); 13 Sep 2017 14:00:00 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 24919, pid: 24925, t: 0.0571s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 13 Sep 2017 14:00:00 -0000 To: PHP internals References: <3D.0C.10715.383F8B95@pb1.pair.com> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:59:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3D.0C.10715.383F8B95@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 13/09/17 09:59, Tony Marston wrote: > People who think that case sensitive software is cool are deluding > themselves. When I started working on mainframe computers (UNIVAC and > IBM) in the early 1970s everything was case-insensitive. Life was so much easier when using an RTTY as the keyboard and printer. No one had invented the shift key and the 5 bit character set was easy to work with. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk