Re: Renaming PhpAttribute to Attribute

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 16:43, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote: > Attribute is certainly too generic, and will needlessly collide > with code > in the wild. > I wonder how true that is, precisely because it *is* so generic, so people will likely have used it with a prefix or in their own namespace. It might be interesting to get some stats before burdening the language with more inconsistency. > I suggest circling back to the PHP\ namespace discussion, and > having > PHP\Attribute if you really have a problem with current naming. That would be a second-best, in my opinion; less arbitrary than "PhpAttribute", but still awkwardly inconsistent with the rest of the language unless we have plans to move other things that feel like the same category, such as Throwable, Exception, Closure, etc. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]