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

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:06 AM Jakob Givoni <jakob@givoni.dk> wrote: > 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? > How would .\Foo be different from the currently existing namespace\Foo? (Note that "namespace" here is to be taken literally, not as "put the current namespace here"). Nikita