Re: Re: [RFC] PHP Namespace Policy

On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 20:55, Mark Randall <marandall@php.net> wrote: > I would be interested in hearing arguments why such a strategy adopted > with great success by many of the most popular and well-developed > languages, is inappropriate for PHP. > To me, the answer to that is quite simple: we have several hundred functions, and several dozen classes and interfaces, which are not in such a namespace; and we have millions of lines of code out in the world using them. So either we need a strong rationale and a concrete plan to move all of those into the namespace, or we need a consistent policy on what goes in and what stays out. It wouldn't make much sense, for instance, to have PHP\str_contains but no plan to move str_replace. The decisions you can make in version 8 of a language are inevitably different from those you can make prior to version 1. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]