[ZendTo] Feature request: optional units on some preferences

[Adam Thorn]

On 10/12/2020 16:55, Jules via ZendTo wrote:

> Will people always get the case right, even when they never read the 
> instructions?
> Or do I only insist on "m" and "M" having the right case, and ignore the 
> case on all the others?
> Bit awkward. Only other option is to infer whether it's a byte count or 
> a time duration from the name of the setting (/bytes/i ==> byte count, 
> rules like that).

My immediate instinct is to suggest case-sensitivity, because SI 
prefixes are case-sensitive and m=milli vs M=mega are rather different!

But,.. for the size units it might  be best to mirror the options 
specified in 
https://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.using.php#faq.using.shorthandbytes : 
i.e. accept K/k, M/m, G/g, and use them to mean the "power of 2" values 
rather than "power of 10".

Adam