On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 8:02 AM Mark Randall <marand...@php.net> wrote:
> On 15/03/2021 22:18, Levi Morrison via internals wrote: > > Like any other case insensitive symbol PHP works with that comes from > > userland, I would lower it in the engine's side of things. I would not > > push the lowercase requirement on the API. > > That was the first design, however it required re-creating the array > with potentially many thousands of new strings which slowed it down > considerably. > > As I envisenge this to be used with machine generated data, having it > use lowercase would not be an issue. > If lower case key names weren't a requirement for the user, but the engine worked on lower case keys, how would something like this behave: $map['myClass'] = '/path/to/lib/myclass1.php' $map['myclass'] = '/path/to/lib/myclass2.php' > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Chase Peeler chasepee...@gmail.com
