Re: namespaces ambiguity

[Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>] > At 09:35 PM 9/30/2001 +0200, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > >[Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>] > > > Hey, > > > > > > I just started playing around with the parser to support the > > > namespaces syntax Stig laid out in his RFC. I think I've thought of an > > > ambiguity (with constants) which makes me wonder how feasible the > > > proposed syntax is. > > > Consider the following expression: > > > $test?FOO:BAR:BARBARA > > > > > > Would this mean that the person meant $test?(FOO):(BAR:BARBARA) or > > > $test?(FOO:BAR):BARBARA? > > > >Okay, is there another character we can use? Doesn't look that way. > >Maybe we need to use two characters then? Since both "::" and "->" > >are taken, "//" is the best suggestion I can come up with. > > // can't be used because of comments. D-oh! :-) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway