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Subject: PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Good evening all,

With the recent discussions making it likely we'll start thinking about 
things to add, and more importantly, break in PHP 6, I'd like to bring 
up the topic of case-sensitivity in PHP again.

Would it be possible for us to finally be consistent in PHP 6, with 
everything being case-sensitive (or case-insensitive, as the case may 
be)? It would be a quite major backwards-compatibility break, but it 
would also be one that an automated tool could easily fix your code for. 
Perhaps something like Python's 2to3.

Thoughts?
-- 
Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/