Req #52504 [Com]: Support relative namespaces

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52504&edit=1 ID: 52504 Comment by: dodonnell at gmail dot com Reported by: robert dot de dot wilde at online dot nl Summary: Support relative namespaces Status: Not a bug Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Class/Object related Operating System: Any PHP Version: 5.3.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Agreed that in my opinion ..\ does not require more brainpower. I think the syntax is pretty self-explanatory to pretty much any one who knows some basic programming and, more importantly, prevents having to use a lot of absolute namespacing that is sensitive to structural changes in a project. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-05 18:50:47] mtdowling at gmail dot com This feature request would allow libraries to be written in a way that they can be vendored inside of other libraries without having to modify the library being vendored. Other languages, e.g., Python, allow this type of relative namespace traversal. I don't agree that it would be hard to read or require "more brain power". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-03-19 12:01:32] vitaly dot mukhin at gmail dot com Two cases: namespace Language\Programming\Scripting; { class Php extends ..\Scripting {} } VS namespace Language\Programming\Scripting; { class Php extends \Language\Programming\Scripting {} } This example, I suppose, covers a huge percentage of class extendings. And, as you can see, first variant is much more easier and convenient in using. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-02 21:01:45] francescrosasbosque at gmail dot com As I understand it accessing parent namespaces would require the same brain power that it needs to access child namespaces as both of them rely on knowing what's the current namespace. To me it is weird to have one but not the other. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-28 10:38:59] johannes@php.net Adding support for the ..\..\Foo\Bar notation quickly requires quite some brain power to read the code, especially in a longer file where the namespace declaration might not be on the same screen. We try to keep PHP code human-readable. Doing the use foo\*; thing is not possible due to PHP's dynamic nature. We do not know which classes there might be (think __autoload) so we'd like to do it but can't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-26 10:10:33] tom at tomwardrop dot com I was just about to post the exact same feature suggestion. I'm using PHP 5.4 RC8 after 2 years of programming Ruby (I have a project that better lends itself to PHP template-orientated nature), and this was one of the first things I tried to do, reference a resource one level up in the namespace hierarchy. Luckily, my namespace isn't too deep, but I can imagine some of the larger frameworks which have 3-6+ level deep namespaces could really benefit from this. I'm surprised none of the dev's have commented on this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52504 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52504&edit=1