Re: AW: [PHP-DEV] Basic Namespace Requirements

Hello Timm, Sunday, December 4, 2005, 3:22:48 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > >> Hello Jessie, > [...] >> you should simply try to come up with a working >> patch using a working separator which can clearly >> only be "\". > Why is \ the only character that could work? Because it's unused? What about > for examole the tilde (~) or the exclamation mark (!)? - both of them are > prefixes only, so neither a!b nor a~b will conflict. Right, but doesn't make the code readable since once again you give operators multiple meanings. And we don't want to become another perl, do we? > On the backslash: It'll be a bitch in places where you need the class name > as a string (reflection) because \ needs to be escaped withing a string. > Think: How many backslashes do you need in a regular expression using double > quotes to represent a single backslash (try to answer this question without > trying it out. Was it two? Three? four? Six?) Wrong assumption. The \ won't need to be escaped. Best regards, Marcus