[PHP-DEV] PHP history question : case sensitivity From: Flavien LEBARBE (flebarbe <email protected>)
Date: 04/19/00

Hello,

I've this question in mind for a while : Why does
PHP interpret everything as case insensitive ?
For me, it has two downsides :

1) Every function has to lowercase the variable names,
   it's time consumming.
2) It EncOURaGeS bAD CoDiNG StAnDArDs aS AlL vArIaBlEs
   cAsE VaRIaNTs ArE AcCepTEd. ;-)

I totally agree (and don't want to start a thread on
this subject) that it cannot be changed anymore as
it would break sooooooo many applications written in
PHP, but how did this happen historically ?

Flavien, computer languages history curious ;-) 

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