Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:100632 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26148 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2017 14:58:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Sep 2017 14:58:12 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 62.31.75.76 76.75-31-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk Received: from [62.31.75.76] ([62.31.75.76:29709] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 07/B0-19300-38AEBB95 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:58:11 -0400 Message-ID: <07.B0.19300.38AEBB95@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <752eaf1d-5603-70f5-8e69-b8243547cad1@gmail.com> <320b3863-e36b-2ed4-543b-fcbd433b1c56@gmx.de> <57.CA.19300.69C9BB95@pb1.pair.com> <5fe274c1-36de-e650-fd2c-bc4f9caf36f3@rhsoft.net> In-Reply-To: <5fe274c1-36de-e650-fd2c-bc4f9caf36f3@rhsoft.net> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:58:05 +0100 Lines: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3564.1216 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3564.1216 X-Posted-By: 62.31.75.76 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecate and remove case-insensitive constants? From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston") wrote in message news:5fe274c1-36de-e650-fd2c-bc4f9caf36f3@rhsoft.net... > > > >Am 15.09.2017 um 11:25 schrieb Tony Marston: >> You are missing a third option - Microsoft languages are case-preserving. >> This is where the IDE ensures that every use of a word is automatically >> switched to the case used in its original definition. This makes it >> impossible to use the same word with a different case. > >a sane IDE for PHP does exactly the same for many many years if you don't >insist to change it manually - when you manage that you functions are >written all over your codebase with different uppercase/lowercase the >problem is looking at you from a mirror every morning How many IDEs out there for PHP? What percentage of them support case preserving? Zend Studio didn't when I used it. PHPEd doesn't. -- Tony Marston