On 4 May 2010 13:14, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> The options are:>> 1. Apply Tomas's patch to make case-insensitive lookups> locale-ignorant. Pros: fixes immediate problem. Cons: breaks BC for> case-insensitive function/method name lookups for high-bit characters> in single-byte encodings. (Not that we've ever advertised or> documented that.)>> 2. Make function/method names case-sensitive, per Stan's e-mail. Pros:> fixes problem; brings PHP into line with most other languages; extra> consistency with variables; possible performance improvement. Cons: BC> break from current documented behaviour.>> 3. Do nothing. Pros: no BC breaks of any kind. Cons: continues to> annoy Turkish and Azeri developers and those developing for those> locales.
+1 for Option 2. Coming from languages where are case sensitive it has
never occurred to me that PHP wasn't case sensitive. So no BC for at
least 1 user!
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