[asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

[A J Stiles]

On Monday 01 October 2012, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> I propose that dialplan variables need to be made consistent in their
> evaluation. We need to choose either to be always case-sensitive or always
> case-insensitive. The problem is, I don't know which of these changes would
> have a larger effect on people. This is where I would like your feedback.
> Which way should it go?

Case-sensitive always is the better option.  It's just more intuitive.  Most 
other things in Unix-like environments are case-sensitive, so you come to 
expect it.

More things are likely to be broken by going case-insensitive.  If someone, 
somewhere is relying on STUFF, Stuff and stuff being distinct, then they 
probably have a very good reason for doing so.

Besides, if we start accommodating that sort of sloppiness, where will it lead 
next?  Will we stop distinguishing between I, 1 and L, or 0 and O because they 
look similar?  How about letters which are next to one another on the 
keyboard?  Perhaps, bearing in mind the imperfect rollover action on many 
keyboards, we should treat "stuff" and "sutff" the same?</hysterics>

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AJS

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