Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79938 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 5449 invoked from network); 25 Dec 2014 11:22:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Dec 2014 11:22:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:36071] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 98/A4-07310-F83FB945 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 06:22:56 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Y46VI-0008Iw-HZ for internals@lists.php.net; Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:22:52 +0000 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:22:52 +0000 To: PHP Internals Message-ID: <20141225112252.GM11370@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: PHP Internals References: <000c01d01ca0$7e70c850$7b5258f0$@yahoo.fr> <000d01d01ec2$46f2f280$d4d8d780$@yahoo.fr> <009a01d01ff4$7d145470$773cfd50$@tekwire.net> <20141225100514.GK11370@phcomp.co.uk> <20141225111607.GL11370@phcomp.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for PHP 7 : case-sensitive symbols From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:18:13PM +1100, Pierre Joye wrote: > Forgot reply all? :) Yes - thanks. Reformatted: On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 09:53:11PM +1100, Pierre Joye wrote: > I do not see a reason why some code having ran out of the box for more > than a decade should be changed for 7 for purely syntax sugars reason, > like ImageCreate to imagecreate or the likes. It just does not make > sense to me. What you are saying is: a mistake was made 10 years ago, we will pass up an opportunity to fix it and perpetuate the error for ever. > Ignoring the paths issue, related to classes, autoload, > etc. also sounds very weird to me. It is bringing in complexity that is not needed. Regards -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include