Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17967 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 63572 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Aug 2005 13:56:36 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 63557 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2005 13:56:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Aug 2005 13:56:36 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 84.57.2.254 dsl-084-057-002-254.arcor-ip.net Received: from ([84.57.2.254:24704] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id CF/76-33075-31CFDF24 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:56:36 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:56:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20050813155635.210a5b87.pierre@dotgeek.org> References: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> <005001c59f70$9bc3ef70$5c8be5a9@ohr.berkeley.edu> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta6 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 84.57.2.254 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist From: pierre@dotgeek.org (Pierre-Alain Joye) On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:17:52 +0200 (CEST) derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Sara Golemon wrote: > > > > 7. Make identifiers case-sensitive > > > > > Or perhaps optionally case sensitive? I dunno, I've made my > > peace with PHP being (mostly) case-insensitive. > > We can't make it optional... that would be just too much problems > for writing portable scripts. The problem is not the portability but the internals, I think that too much options make the whole thing way too complicated. short version, do it or not, not optional :) --Pierre