#49982 [Com]: Inclusion of token/syntax keyword in namespace causes Parse error

ID: 49982 Comment by: swquinn at gmail dot com Reported By: swquinn at gmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows XP Professional PHP Version: 5.3.0 New Comment: Is there any possibility in the future (e.g. PHP 6+) that the acceptable vocabulary for namespaces could be expanded so that the use of a keyword in the namespace doesn't throw a parse error? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-24 02:00:09] johannes@php.net This is expected. Didn't check the docs, maybe this can be made clearer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-24 01:34:07] swquinn at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Using a PHP language token, or syntactic keyword within a namespace causes a Parse error to be thrown by PHP. There is no documentation anywhere (that I could find) indicating whether keywords are permitted as part of a namespace name. If they are not, it would be nice if this is documented. If they should be, then this is clearly a defect. It would be _nice_ a keyword could contain any words (language syntax or otherwise). Reproduce code: --------------- <?php namespace my\default\ns; class Foo { public function bar() { return 0; } } $foo = new Foo(); echo $foo->bar(); ?> Expected result: ---------------- 0 Actual result: -------------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DEFAULT, expecting T_STRING in D:\PHP\tests\test.php on line 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49982&edit=1