[PHP-DEV] Language Case Discrepancies? From: John Donagher (john <email protected>)
Date: 01/05/01

Hey all-

I always liked the fact that classes and functions could be referenced with
any character case combination. But this has finally come back to bite me.
In my opinion, declaring a class like such:

class AbC {}

when instanciated, running a get_class() on the instanciated object should
not return 'abc', but the as-declared 'AbC' (why this is important is a long
story). After looking through the Zend code, I understand completely why
get_class() works the way it does, which is through no fault of its own, but
because of language internals.

Whether or not to make variables, constants, functions, and other language-level
data structures case-sensitive (or even consistent) is obviously not something
that should be mandated by the needs of a few. At the same time, having a
discrepancy between variable/constant and function/class case handling seems
wrong. And with a little extra design, get_class() (along with
get_parent_class(), etc..) could be made to return the case-correct version
regardless of the case sensitivity of the language itself.

Any thoughts? 

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John Donagher
Application Engineer
Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web
408-395-0989
720 University Ave.
Los Gatos CA 95032
www.intacct.com

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