Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: >>> I guess the original reason why PHP has case insensitive >>> class/function names is consistency with HTML standard. >>> If so, XHTML _is_ case sensitive, we should go for case >>> sensitive names. [...] > Question is, PHP is going to be nice to other > web related technology or not. > > I hope most of users answer 'yes' for this :)
XHTML being case sensitive was no design decision, it just 'happend' as XML is (and the decision whether XHTML tags should be upper or lower case took quite some time) for XML the decision to be case sensitive made sense, for XHTML it doesn't (or does it have any TAG/Tag/tag variants in it?), it just hat to be so to be XML compliant php doesn't have to be XML compliant, so i can't see the point in the XHTML argument regarding other "web related technology" (i don't really like the term 'technology' in this context, but that is a different story) IMHO case preservation is all we need i'm not very familiar with current Java coding style/guidelines, but from what i remember nobody really made use of the fact that java IS case sensitive but i *do* remember that we did curse badly about having to remember where to use this long forgotten shift key when typing class and method names -- Hartmut Holzgraefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 Wir stellen für Sie aus auf der CeBIT 2002 und freuen uns in Halle 6 auf Ihren Besuch am Stand H 18 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
