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Posted by Chung Leong on 01/01/06 22:30
Wayne wrote:
> Do you know why PHP functions are case-insensitive in the first place?
> The original reason was because HTML tags were case-insensitive they
> decided to also make PHP functions case-insensitive because it was
> common (back in the day) to call PHP functions like tags <B><?php
> somefunction() ?></B>
>
> But guess what, in XHTML (and XML) tags are now case-sensitive too!
> So even the original reason for PHP case-insensitive functions is now
> gone.
Yeah, seeing how XHTML has taken the world by storm...
> For the next 100 years, you're going to be really disappointed. Every
> modern programming language of any consequence is case-sensitive. You
> might not like it, but you're going to have to live with it.
Well, SQL is not exactly inconsequential. Neither is Visual Basic or
Delphi--outside of academia in any event.
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