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

Hello Sebastian, Saturday, November 26, 2005, 1:46:31 PM, you wrote: > On 11/26/05, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote: >> The only thing that matters is whether i can write a correct >> lexer/parser for this without breaking stuff. > Im no parser expert at all, so just to be sure that I understand the > problem correctly: I guess you can't distinguish at the parser/lexer > level between cases where it's ambiguos without white spaces and where > it isn't? A lexer splits on tokens while white space is optional. If present it allows separation of tokens. Forcing this would make whitespace a token which would be very bad. The parser then works on the tokens and doesn't see any whitespace. > Alternatively, could you provide a configuration switch to turn the > use of namespace constants in the ternary on or off? (So that people > who don't use namespace constants but use the ternary without spaces > wouldn't need to change all their code?) That is no option at all becuase it would make it impossible to write portable php code. marcus