Re: Re: namespace separator ideas

Hi Mat, Matt Friedman wrote:

Hi, I've been following your conversations all day and think I might have a nice idea for the namespace separator idea. Sorry to barge in on your conversation but I think the following has value. What about something like <- or <:: or even just <: It makes sense to me because a namespace is akin to a parent of the class and in a diagram I would use an arrow to point to the parent from the child. At least there is some type of parent <- child relation. examples: Namespace <:: ClassName or Namespace <- ClassName or Namespace <: ClassName Unless I'm missing something these symbols should not conflict with other ones. They also have more a PHP "feel".

Hmm, "<:" doesn't look bad to me. I'd like to somehow conduct a poll to see what most prefer (it would be great if we could add polls on php.net). So far, I have these possibilites: ::: :> <:: <- <:

This is the most semantically pleasing for me and it mirrors a common convention and represents the actual relationship. In the language it is nice when the symbols have an appearance representative of the actual relationship. When I see \ I think of ugly Windoze file paths. Also ::: seems awkward somehow. Matt.

Yeah, I feel the same way for "\". ":::" seems OK to me, but of course, I want to put what the majority prefer. Regards, Jessie