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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:16:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols
From: dragoonis@gmail.com (Paul Dragoonis)

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Hi Francois,

It's too big of a BC change firstly.

Secondly it has no language benefit or developer benefit.

The only benefit is case correctness which is a nice to have. Making sure
existing code works is a must have.

Cheers,
Paul
 On 20 Dec 2014 22:01, "F & N Laupretre" <nf.laupretre@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I don't know if this was discussed before. So, tell me what you think
> before
> I write an RFC.
>
>
>
> I would like to propose that namespaces, functions, and classes become
> case-sensitive (constants are already case-sensitive). Actually, I never
> understood why they are case-insensitive. Even if the performance gain is
> negligible, I think it could be the right time to question this.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Francois
>
>

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