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Posted by Geoff Berrow on 08/05/06 23:24
Message-ID: <eb29q4$htf$2$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> from Tony Marston
contained the following:
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>Imagine you are working on a program and you come across a refenece to a
>function called readfile(). You don't know what it does exactly. so you look
>it up Ten some time later you come across a reference to a function called
>readFile(). You don't notice that one letter has changed case, so you don't
>realise that it is not the same function as the one you remember and
>therefore has completely different behaviour and possibly completely
>different consequences. Later on you discover that there is a whole group of
>*different* functions which have exactly thesame spelling, but where the
>only difference is a change of case in one or two letters.
I guess it's going to really piss you off to learn that functions in PHP
are case insensitive, huh?
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