RE: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator poll, update

On 28 November 2005 09:50, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > BUT the discussion is not only about possibility but also about > > > what you would like. The ":" for example would work if mandatory > > > whitespace would be introduced for the ternary BUT this is very > > > very bad. > > If my vote is counted (not that I asked for it :) then I vote against > all funky syntax, present and future. :: is only thing that is > obvious and somehow connected to the world of PHP as we know it now. Wow! I go home early on a Friday, and come back to a veritable php-dev flood in my Inbox! That must be the most active weekend since I started reading the list!! My point of view is similar to Stanislav's: any operator chosen should have some echo of existing syntax -- this rules out the original suggestion of \ and many of the suggested alternatives. I'm also completely against any solution that introduces new enforced whitespace, however unlikely the construct -- that just doesn't seem like "the PHP way". The two existing "class to member" operators are :: and ->, so I'd be looking at analogues of these. I'm not keen on :: itself performing double-duty here, and I hate ::: and most of the repeated-character suggestions (%%, ..., **, etc.) -- especially as the single-character versions all have completely unrelated meanings. This leaves me looking for something not dissimilar to ->. It's a shame that => is already taken, as that would have done nicely. :> (or ::>), despite their smiley-ness, are actually quite clever suggestions, containing echoes of both :: and -> -- I'd be ok with either of these. Another possibility I haven't seen offered, and that has strong echoes of ->, is ~>. I can't see any conflicts here, it's sufficiently similar to be obviously related, but sufficiently different to be easily distinguished. What do people think? (Space for flame here...) Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley Campus, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm