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

> I thought that was the whole point of namespaces. That you can include > stuff without worries that things will conflict: > > namespace name1 { > define("CONSTANT", "Hello world."); > } > > namespace name2 { > define("CONSTANT", "Hello mars."); > } > > Would produce seporate constants because they're defined in different > namespaces. > The lie in PHP defines is that they are declared at runtime, not compile time. Noone who has a workable implementation laid out is including execution of the namespace scope as part of their plan. Can define() be reimplemented as a mixed runtime/compile-time construct? Yes. But that creates a whole mess of a pickle. -Sara