Re: YANP (Yet Another Namespace Proposal)

As requested by others, attached is a cvs patch that includes the latest namespace additions and PHP test files. With this patch, the following features have been added: 1) import statements now include the class files, using a new .ini variable, "class_path"! 2) Near-full support of private classes! Currently, private classes cannot be used outside their namespace, but can be used within methods of classes within the namespace. What's left for me to do is to allow private classes to be extended from other classes in the same namespace (this is almost complete in this patch, it works if both classes are defined in the same file). Private classes are declared simply as "private class_name" within a namespace (if the "private" keyword is applied to a class in the global namespace, an error will be generated). Aside from what's pending in #2, I think the only missing feature is "namespace imports". I'd like to gather thoughts from others as how this can be best implemented (some issues have been raised as how namespace imports will work with opcode caches). I'll post a few possible approaches some other day this week (I'm tired now ;-)). BTW, I tried to do a "cvs add" to add my test files, but of course, it failed with an "cvs add requires write access to repository" error. Hence, I had to zip up the files separately. How can I add new files locally so that cvs diff picks them up in the patch? Regards, Jessie Hernandez

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