Re: [PHP-DEV] Consistent case-insensitive module registry lookups

Aleksander Machniak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18.08.2026 14:56, Weilin Du wrote:
> I don't want to debate about why case-sensitive is better. I'd say its 
> quite a common view
> for today's developers. Or maybe I am the only one thinking that way.

I don't agree that case-sensitive here would be better.

There's multiple variations of extension names, e.g. PDO, SimpleXML, 
Xdebug, swoole.

And for example --disable-simplexml exists (btw, is this one 
case-insensitive? why not --disable-SimleXML?). The point is that in 
some places you don't have to know the exact casing. So, why would I 
have to know when checking for an extension existence?

More importantly, is it possible currently to have both Myext and myext 
enabled?

I'd say there might be more arguments for case-insensitive solution here.

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