Yup - a one time transition would be preferable to that.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
<weierophin...@php.net> wrote:
> On 2012-04-20, "C.Koy" <can5...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This post is about bug #18556 (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18556)
>> which is a decade old.
>>
>> As the recent comments on that page indicate, there's not a
>> deterministic way to resolve this issue, apart from eliminating
>> tolower() calls for function/class names during lookup. Hence totally
>> case-sensitive PHP.
>>
>> Before opposing with "No, this will break a lot of existing code!",
>> note that I'm not suggesting a static permanent change in the engine;
>> rather a runtime option that will need to be enabled (cli option, INI
>> setting), without which PHP will work as before.
>>
>> Since I'm not well versed in the workings of Zend engine, I solicit
>> the wisdom/experience of people in this list: Is this doable in a
>> practical way, without making grand changes in Zend?
>
> It's not just about changes to the engine. If you introduce a runtime
> option that switches behavior, you then get a portability problem --
> code runs fine in one context, but not the other.
>
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