#30506 [Com]: Symbolic Includes

ID: 30506 Comment by: rakaur at malkier dot net Reported By: rintaun at projectxero dot net Status: Feedback Bug Type: Feature/Change Request PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Symbolic includes import the symbol table for the given namespace into the current namespace (such as in Python, Perl, D, Ruby, Java, etc) instead of textually replacing the include call with the file's contents. You more commonly see this used with import rather than include. Since PHP has no notion of namespaces or cleanliness (it just throws everything into one big namespace) I don't see how this would be accomplished without some semi-large changes to the way the language works. Perhaps something like Perl's use (which imports the namespace into the current namespace, but doesn't do a textual include) versus Pelr's require (which requires you to access the namespace seperately via $Namespace::). Another way to compare/contrast would be Python's import' versus from <something> import <something`. The former requires the use of a new namespace, the latter imports symbols into the current namespace. I hope that answers some questions. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-09 13:11:00] derick@php.net And me neither... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-09 10:10:38] tony2001@php.net Personally I can't understand what are you talking about. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-09 09:45:16] rintaun at projectxero dot net PHP uses text includes, ie. it simply replaces the include() call with the file that is being included. However, symbolic includes are included.. well, symbolically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-10-21 09:17:35] derick@php.net What are symbolic includes? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-10-21 02:42:10] rintaun at projectxero dot net Description: ------------ Requesting symbolic includes, as opposed to standard text includes. Symbolic includes are so much cleaner than text includes, and would make developing some applications in PHP much easier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30506&edit=1