RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)

For what its worth (not much), I'd rather give up namespace constants and use : rather than enforce whitespace which is just BAD from a language perspective. Makes it feel like programming in bash. The concept behind namespaces (in PHP at least) is rooted in OOP, so requiring a class just to have constants in your namespace isn't too much to ask for. The parser should always be able to handle <namespace>:<class>::<whatever> and not conflict with other syntax. If we are truly stuck with \ so be it, but I think alternatives with some level of compromise should be considered before \ is settled upon. It's just plain awkward IMO. Bob Silva > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Schneider [mailto:cschneid@cschneid.com] > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 4:42 PM > To: Marcus Boerger > Cc: PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out > there) > > Marcus Boerger wrote: > > here again namespaces would be perfect. Given a lib that doesn't > prefix > > you'd simply do: > > namespace LibNameHere { reqire "some_lib_include"; } > > and be done...wohooo :-) > > Only if newly introduced PHP core classes use a namespace too. You'll > have to use PHP\Date (or the like) if you want to avoid conflicts in > existing code. Plus maybe something like "import PHP\Date as Date" or > something along these lines if you want to avoid PHP\ in newly written > code where you know that there is no Date class yet. > > PS: I'd rather have : for namespaces with the whitespace restriction for > ? a:x : b:y than the confusing (escaping characters outside of a > string?) backslash. > > - Chris > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php