Re: namespace separator ideas

What was the argument against '::' again? Jessie Hernandez wrote:

Oliver, Like I mentioned in another thread, ":" cannot be used, even if only classes are allowed in namespaces. Look at this example: $x = $y?a:b::c(); The above can be parsed either as the first argument being "the result of method c of class b in namespace a" or the first argument being "the define named 'a' if true and the result of method c of the _unnamespaced_ class b". The only way to disambiguate is to force whitespace or force parentheses usage, but this would make the language inconsistent and confusing. Regards, Jessie Oliver Grätz wrote:

Roman Ivanov schrieb:

Radical idea: 1) Use :. 2) Make : to work like ::. 3) Make : to work like ->. 4) But no one will agree to it anyway, so I stop here.

Nope. I agree ;-) But that train has already left. (although I still think : could be made to work for the namespaces) OLLi