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To: "G. P. B." <george.banyard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New PCRE function
From: mike@newclarity.net (Mike Schinkel)

> On Feb 19, 2020, at 12:27 PM, G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> But that's Golang's policy,

The intent was not to present someone else's policy but to instead show =
prior art.

> so either we change all error messages to be lower case or we keep it =
consistent with what PHP currently does.
> Moreover, I'm not sure I see a massive benefit in having it in =
lowercase (especially just one random function which behaves not like =
others)

That is certainly one position to take.=20

Another position is to evolve and adopt newer practices rather than be =
fixed by to choices made in the past that do not address concerns that =
have been identified since the original choices were made.

And with that, that is all I will say on this topic.  Take the outcome =
where you will.

-Mike=