Re: Namespaces in PHP 6 - ++$take

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:31 +0100, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Hans, > > Friday, November 10, 2006, 8:30:55 PM, you wrote: > > > Brian Moon wrote: > >>> Unfortunately namespaces are not only syntactic sugar, but dire > >>> necessity > >>> for PHP if it wants to be taken as a serious langauage and defend it's > >>> position against other arising 'web scripting' alternatives. > >> > >> It seems the list of things that PHP needs to be "taken as a serious > >> langauage" is never ending. Before PHP 5, all that was needed was > >> good OOP support. Now this. I am for namespaces, but that line is > >> getting old and I, a professional, serious PHP developer and tired of > >> hearing it. > > > I think that one reason why this list is never ending is that these > > languages are constantly moving targets -- I would hope that what people > > expected of a web development language would evolve over the course of > > several years. Daniel's project (coWiki) was one of the first (if not > > the absolute first) to show us what was possible with PHP5 and > > Exceptions; that was some pretty serious PHP. I think what Daniel means > > is that to remain competitive, PHP needs to include the features that > > developers have come to expect of a language Many developers came to PHP in spite of what other developers had come to expect in other languages. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'