Re: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)

"Jessie Hernandez" <jrhernandez05@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4387F9E6.9020605@gmail.com... > Bob Silva wrote: > >>$x = $y ? foo:bar:baz:stupid; > > > > > > I think "stupid" is the key word here, by forcing the whitespace or (), you > > are making the language itself stupid by not knowing how to parse itself. > > I'm not a core developer, but I am pretty sure that this implementation will > > never be accepted, so change your argument to something more agreeable (like > > no namespace constants) and it may have a better chance of acceptance or the > > alternative is to have \ the accepted delimeter for namespaces which we both > > agree is not the best solution. I don't think having namespace constants is > > reason enough for such an awkward syntax. Any core functionality that uses > > globals now that is moved to an object will require code modifications > > anyways, so I don't think that’s a valid argument for the need of namespace > > constants. > > > > Bob Silva > > > > Like I said before, I personally don't care for namespace constants, so > if this whitespace/parentheses "limitation" is unacceptable, then I can > simply remove namespace constants support from my patch. I would like to > hear more opinions on this, though, before I take any further action. > > Regards, > > Jessie > > P.S. It would be really good to have some sort of polling feature on > php.net where we can post polls, so we can get users' feedback on things > before making changes (as opposed to just asking the subscribers of the > internals list). Well I'm a user, and I couldn't care less about namespace constants honestly... :) I'd say get rid of it, if it enables you to use ':' as a namespace seperator. Just my $0.02 (but I realize you'd prefer hundreds of dollars worth of opinions) Ron