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

Hello Stanislav, easy changing of behavior in classes of a namespace by only changing one value for instance. namespace Foo { const XYZ = 42; class Bar { const XXXX = Foo::XYZ; //... } class Baz { const XXXX = Foo::XYZ; //... } } marcus Monday, November 28, 2005, 8:49:10 PM, you wrote: MB>>>brains sooner or later. On the other hand \ has a clear visible split MB>>>meaning. That is all the namespace operator must have besides not > Yes, except that it is used as escape character in a dozen of languages or > more and automatically recognized as such by any experienced programmer, > who would instantly think "WTF is \n doing inside an identifier???" MB>>>Btw, during paris meeting we thought that: "Constants in name spaces MB>>>are allowed unless we find problems with the implementation". > I don't see any reason why they should be needed. What you can do with > them that you can't do with class constants? Best regards, Marcus