On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 05:37, Marko Karppinen wrote:
> Markus:
> > You have the wrong book then. Painless integration with other
> > technologies is the main argument (.NET, SOAP, SRM [didn't
> > forget it this time, Derick ;)])
> 
> I have some trouble believing that this is a real-world problem.
> Interfacing with a case-sensitive system is troublesome only
> when someone actually depends on being able to differentiate
> two objects only by the case of their names. Have you met such
> code "in the wild"?
> 
> Personally, I've used a case-insensitive but case-preserving
> file system for more than five years now, while constantly
> dealing with and mounting volumes from machines with
> case-sensitive file systems. During this time I have encountered
> ZERO problems related to incompatible case handling between systems.
> 
> This leads me to believe that the interop problem you describe is
> theoretical in nature. Prove me wrong :-)


You are wrong. The problem is when you call a case sensitive function
name in an external language or interface from php. This causes major
lookup and performance problems.

-Jason
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