Re: [RFC] Treat namespaced names as single token, relax reserved keyword restrictions

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:52 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi internals, > > Inspired by the recent discussion on reserved keyword reservation, I'd like > to propose the following RFC: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token > > This RFC makes two related changes: Treat namespaced names as a single > token, which enables use of reserved keywords inside them. And remove > reserved keyword restrictions from various declarations. > > The RFC comes with a small backwards compatibility break related to names > that include whitespace, but will hopefully reduce the backwards > compatibility impact of future reserved keyword additions. > > Regards, > Nikita Love it, thanks Nikita! In a mail that probably went to everyone's spam folder, I asked for opinions on allowing use of .\Foo as an alternative to Foo in the current namespace, thus reducing friction with reserved keywords even more. Any thoughts on that now? Best, Jakob