On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:02:56 -0400
john@coggeshall.org (John Coggeshall) wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 09:40 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote:
A single alpha released pecl extension has a problem, well that imo
is not that bad conflict and can be solved before it is being
released.
I wonder if The Perl guys check every single CPAN extension before
introducing a new keyword or identifier... you know, just in case...
It is not about checking every project out there but how to deal with
the new classes, planed or not.
There was not clear policy about that and we still don't have one.
"They" are choosing to rename it, fine. But we still have to discuss
once and for all what to do with all new classes and how to inform our
users.
Agreed, there isn't clear policy. But I think if it's generally been agreed that 'DateTime' is acceptable for the main class in PHP's date extension, a precedent was just created that says the names of classes should be _prefixed_ with the extension name. (I'd hoped the name of an extension's root class would be _equal_ to the PHP extension name, purely because that's more intuitive for users, but not so).
Also invoking precedence, there are no underscores in PHP's internal classnames.
We also have to discuss how to avoid such events to happen again.
With SPL and now Date having those prefixes for their internal classes, I doubt the need for further discussion. It just needs setting in stone somewhere, no?
- Steph
Cheers,
-- Pierre
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