Re: Discussion: Object-scoped RNG

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 4:51 PM Levi Morrison via internals < internals@lists.php.net> wrote: > > Also, I am happy to see that Nikita's rules for namespace assignment to > extensions have been approved. I'm going to use the RNG > namespace. > > Just to be clear, you can only use RNG as a namespace if the > extension is named ext/rng. You cannot add namespaced things to > standard nor SPL nor > Core. > This is not correct. The namespace policy RFC specifically and explicitly allows namespacing of components in standard/core, see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaces_in_bundled_extensions#core_standard_spl. Adding something under the RNG\ namespace inside ext/standard is fine (modulo due diligence on the specific choice of namespace name). Regards, Nikita