> Hi Nikita, > > I'm a terrible person for only bringing this up now (I apologise for not > following the list as closely as I used to), but one reason > case-insensitive constants are maybe useful is they leave open the > possibility of being able to access functions as values in future: like > some constants, function names are case-insensitive, and a fallback > could be added to constant accesses to return a closure of the function > with the same name if no constant is found. > > Of course, removing case-insensitive constants wouldn't preclude such a > feature, just make it a little more annoying to implement, so this is > not really a significant reason to vote against. To that end, I'll vote > in favour of this deprecation.
No, thanks. The fallback is already a bad thing for functions, we don't need another one. If such a feature would be implemented, it'd probably be via combined symbol tables, making either everything case-insensitive or everything case-sensitive. Regards, Niklas -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
