Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

From: Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:25:41 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist
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Why would I need name spaces for basic functions, just so that I need to rename all my code to use str:replace rather then str_replace and perform 2 hash table lookups? Ilia Marco Tabini wrote: > Hey Ilia, > > On 8/12/05 3:03 PM, "Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org> wrote: > >>-1 to namespaces. As for modifying functions that would require a fair >>number of function aliases for BC as untold number of scripts will >>break. That is something we are trying to eliminate in the first place. >> > > > > With namespaces, wouldn't the problem go away altogether? Old function names > can be deprecated and E_STRICT'ed and a new, uniform naming convention and > parameter order be enforced for the future. I hate namespaces but this > sounds like a good solution to me. > > > Mt. > > > >

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