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

Stas, I agree that namespace constants are not needed, and are even problematic. If I import a namespace that is divided among several files and I use a constant from that namespace, __autoload won't let me find, and I won't know where it is either. It's better to have a "Config" class under the namespace that contains all the constants needed, and this class can be autoloaded if used. Using the same line of reasoning, what can you do with a simple function in a namespace that you can't do with a static method in a class inside that namespace? If we scrap functions also, then we can use the ":" operator and everything will be simple. Anyways, if ":::" is not accepted and I can't make namespace constants work in the ternary with ":", then I'm simply going to remove them. Regards, Jessie "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0511282146170.31821@shire.zend.office... > 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? > > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer > stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115