Re: RFC: short and inner classes

> Le 15 mars 2025 à 12:53, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk> a écrit : > > > > On 14 March 2025 23:37:08 GMT, Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes> wrote: >> I could get behind ::, but I feel that it introduces human >> ambiguity. I don't believe it would introduce compiler ambiguity, but as a human, I have to >> hope the programmers are using a style that makes it obvious what are inner classes and what are >> constants/methods. > > As far as I can see, all four languages I looked up last night (Java, C#, Swift, Kotlin) use > the same syntax for accessing a nested type as for accessing a property or method, so we'd be > following the crowd to use "::" > > That said, I think they all also use that same syntax for namespace (or equivalent) lookups, so > the same argument can be made for "\". (Why PHP separates those isn't entirely clear > to me.) > According to my archeological research, it was originally designed to reuse :: as namespace separator, but it was finally changed to something else due to ambiguity between static class elements and namespaced functions/constants. See https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceissues and https://wiki.php.net/rfc/backslashnamespaces (where :: is assumed to be the namespace separator). —Claude