Re: Breaking backwards compatibility - good or bad?
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Re: Breaking backwards compatibility - good or bad?

From: Colin Fine <news@kindness.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat Dec 31 2005 - 20:12:15 CET

Wayne wrote:
>
> You know, I don't really care that much about the case-sensitivity
> issue. I've programmed in PHP for years and hardly noticed the
> different (case sensitive variables, case insensitive functions).
> Neither one seemed to case more errors one way or the other. I can
> also effortless move from VB to C++ and never have a problem with it
> either.
>
> I think you're making it a bigger issue than it is. If the PHP
> developers want to change it for consistency sake, that seems to be a
> good enough reason. It really won't affect anyone too much either
> way.
>

Pardon me? Tony wrote a paper with his opinions, and pointed people at
it. *Somebody else* made a big issue of it.

Happy new year

Colin
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:51:11 2006