Re: Re: PEAR::Date broken (Was: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_5_2) /ext/date php_date.c php_date.h)

On 7/18/06, Steph Fox <steph@zend.com> wrote:

I'm probably being dim here, but how is this going to pan out for BC? Either now, or when PHP 6 comes along and we (presumably) go from PhpDate to Php::Date? (What am I missing?)

PHPDate would still exists as an alias for BC. The advantage of namespace in that matter would be to use a default namespace, ie: 'using namespace php'. Then you are allowed to use the Date object as you will without prefixing. So in 6.0, PHPDate, PHP::PHPDate and PHP:Date would all be the same thing. It sounds stupid, but it does not cause any BC breaks, and any clashes in PHP 5.2 without namespaces. Sincerely, Olivier