Re: [Initial Feedback] PHP User Modules - An Adaptation of ES6 from JavaScript

> On Jun 28, 2024, at 7:45 AM, Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes > <mailto:rob@bottled.codes>> wrote: >> Fast forward a bit - PHP 5.3, and the introduction of namespaces were introduced to deal >> with the overloaded symbol tables. They are a bit a hotwire as (if I'm not mistaken, it's >> been a couple years since I read the discussion on it) they just quietly prepend the namespace >> string in front of the name of all new symbols declared in the namespace for use elsewhere. As a >> result, PHP namespaces don't do some of the things we see in the namespaces of other languages >> (looking at Java and C# here). For example, privacy modifiers within a namespace aren't a >> thing. > > This would be nice to have ... maybe. But namespace have been around, what, 10-15 years? I > think if someone wanted to "fix" it, it would have been fixed by now. Or not. Never underestimate the power of inertia for maintaining a less than ideal status-quo, especially when the decision to change has to be approved by a 2/3rd vote of committee. 🤷‍♂️ -Mike