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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Andrea Faulds wrote:
> 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?

Personally I do take great care to be consistent in my use of 'case' mainly 
because of problems when switching between Linux and Windows. Early on I kept 
hitting problems with libraries that worked fine on Windows, but failed on Linux 
because someone had been lax on file names! I'm still hitting that problem even 
today. Therefore I would be more than happy to see the general adoption of 
case-sensitive naming!

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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