Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces ambiguity

At 12:46 PM 10/1/2001 +0200, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:

[Zak Greant <zak@php.net>] On September 30, 2001 06:15 pm, Wez Furlong wrote:

What about "." then (Java/Delphi)? --Wez.

Wouldn't that conflict with the concatenation operator? Unless I am mistaken, it looks like only the following single symbols are available: % * | \ (outside of quotes at least) Uhm, % and * are taken for modulo and multiplication. So how do these look: HTML\Table - looks too 1980 HTML|Table - hmm, weird I still think Zeev's suggestion (HTML::Table) is very good, if it doesn't impose too much runtime overhead.

I don't like Zeev's suggestion because it does impose an extra hash lookup (usually it'll be two) and probably some more logic too. I don't think that new features we add today should suffer from run-time overhead some constructs from the past have had to suffer. By the way, it also has some ambiguities. Is foo::bar() a function in class foo or in namespace foo. No one said you can't have a namespace foo when you have a class foo. I think the best way to go is to go with ':' and live with the ambiguity. Many languages have such ambiguities and it's probably not such a big deal. In light of :: also having ambiguities why not go with :? Andi