Re: Breaking backwards compatibility - good or bad?

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:20:11 +0000, Colin Fine <news@kindness.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>> 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?

 Then it picks up the file with the capitalisation matching the class name, but
it's then not portable.

 The main case-insensitive filesystems (FAT32, NTFS) are still case-preserving
anyway, so a file still has a single canonical name capitalised in a specific
way.

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