Re: Breaking backwards compatibility - good or bad?

Wayne wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:10:33 +0000, Colin Fine
> <news@kindness.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>PHP5 marked a step forward over PHP4, but Tony has changed my mind.
>>The one place where it has improved things (that I can now say
>>class MyClass
>>...
>>if get_class($var, 'MyClass') ...
>>and have it work)
>>is not enough to justify the change.
>
>
> The reason for the change was for __AutoLoad(). Since most file
> systems where PHP runs is case-sensitive you need to get the proper
> case of the class to map it to a file name to load.
>
> That's the reason for that change.
>

So what happens if you use it on an OS with case-insensitive filenames?

Colin
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:51:05 2006