[asterisk-dev] [design] Matching algorithm

[Leif Madsen]

Tony Mountifield wrote:
>> In an ideal world, I choose #2. In reality, I choose #1, because I don't 
>> want to break more dialplans that we have to.
> 
> Fine, if that's the case, then I agree #2 would be too big a change.
> And thanks to Lief for the _mai[n]-X. trick. I hadn't thought of that one.

Also agreed with the #2 option -- is there anyway we could end up 
deprecating the lowercase usage for a version of make #1 a reality in 1.8?

A warning at dialplan reload each time that stated

[WARNING] Use of lowercase pattern matching is deprecated and will be 
removed in the next version of Asterisk. Please use uppercase for 
pattern matching.

Also, would it be a good idea to have it as an option in the [general] 
section of the dialplan?

lowercasepatternmatch=<yes|no>

And we can thank Jared for the [n] trick -- he was the one who gave me 
the idea when I ran into the same issue you described.


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Leif Madsen
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