Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Case sensitivity

2008-11-07 Thread Stan Vassilev | FM
As another example, anyone with half a brain and more than 10 minutes experience with the internals of PHP knows that it'd be ridiculous to suggest that PHP's array type be re-written to act like Java or .NET. The fact that it is ridiculous is implicit, we all know it, it doesn't need to be sai

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Case sensitivity

2008-11-07 Thread Nate Abele
On Nov 7, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Ronald Chmara wrote: On Nov 6, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Nate Abele wrote: I was shocked and horrified that that ridiculous "remove-the-$" post actually turned into a legitimate discussion. I mean, seriously? No, not seriously. [snip] The trick is knowing when a j

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Case sensitivity

2008-11-07 Thread Dave Ingram
Travis Swicegood wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Ronald Chmara wrote: > >> 1. All built-in PHP functions should be aliased in the worlds most >> used languages, so that declaring a "function" could also be written >> as: "funktsioon", "otstarve", "λειτουργία ", "ویرایش", "Fonction", >> "funci

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Case sensitivity

2008-11-07 Thread Travis Swicegood
On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Ronald Chmara wrote: 1. All built-in PHP functions should be aliased in the worlds most used languages, so that declaring a "function" could also be written as: "funktsioon", "otstarve", "λειτουργία ", "ویرایش", "Fonction", "funcionar", "fungsi", "funzionare",

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Case sensitivity

2008-11-06 Thread Ronald Chmara
On Nov 6, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Nate Abele wrote: I was shocked and horrified that that ridiculous "remove-the-$" post actually turned into a legitimate discussion. I mean, seriously? No, not seriously. It's an old internet joke, a shibboleth among programmers, not unlike "GOTO considered h

[PHP-DEV] Re: Case sensitivity

2008-11-06 Thread Nate Abele
On 06.11.2008, at 18:46, Stan Vassilev | FM wrote: > NOTE: Continuing from thread "Call it: allow reserved words in a > class or not?": [snip] > > We can test such automated porting scripts on samples collected from > PEAR, Google Code and projects like Drupal, Joomla etc. to reduce > side effec