Re: New Datetime class problem

Ron Korving wrote:

- First of all, people use their classes a lot more than PHP core classes, and so prefixing application classes is a big burden compared to prefixing PHP core classes.

Its quite trivial .. all people need to do is stick a single underscore into their class name [1]. Thats all. They only need to really prefix with anything a bit longer if they want to avoid name clashes with other third party code.

- Second, with the active record design pattern becoming more popular, database table-names are starting to dictate class names.

Err, where is the problem applying a default prefix in that scenario? And sure if there is a sensible implementation for namespaces I am sure we will get the feature. I have not yet heared any core people say that they are against the feature in general. regards, Lukas [1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.php