Am 15.09.2017 um 16:38 schrieb Tony Marston:
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Am 15.09.2017 um 11:12 schrieb Tony Marston:
I am not asking the world to slow down because I am too lazy to
change. I am arguing that case insensitive software has been around
for many decades, and for some people to advocate for its removal
just because they don't have the brain power to come up with a proper
solution for a minor glitch that affects only a small number of
languages I find unacceptable. A competent programmer would fix the
problem that affects the few without removing a feature that the many
are used to
and a competent programmer using PHP as programming language would not
define a funtion do_something() and write "Do_Something",
"do_Something", "DO_something" all over his codebase
While that may be "uncool" or even "inconsistent" it does not cause a
genuine problem. But you seem to be supporting a change which would be
worse than uncool, it would be downright horrific. No human language
that I know of allows a word to change its meaning just by changing the
case of one or more characters
i brought you samples of german where the meanining of the same word
changes *dramatically* - "nett zu Vögeln" versus "nett zu vögeln" which
goes from "nice to birds" to "nice to fuck"
and this standard behaviour was echoed
in all the computer systems that I have used since the 1970s. The fact
that I can create a function called do_something() and later refer to it
as either Do_something(), do_Something() or even Do_SomeThing() may be
annoying but it is irrelevant. Do you realise how many problems it would
cause if each change in case pointed to a totally different function?
only when one is so short-sighted as you act
it's not rocket science at compile time throw a error that you are not
allowed to define foo() and Foo() in the same software which has no
runtime costs and after that you may even have less runtime costs
because all the case-insensitive handling can be skipped
and well, for the time of deprecation the compiler code with finally
throws errors can issue the warnings with file and line - i assure you
that going to fix that warnings takes less time than the whole
discussion with you over the last days from several people
Would you support anyone who proposed adding a series of functions to
PHP core or an extension where every function used exactly the same
words but in a different case?
see above - just because you assume it's rocket scienece doesn't mean it is
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