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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP and case-sensitivity inconsistency in PHP 6
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

On 26.01.2014 21:07, 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?

not again, please, not again!


Andrey