Re: Namespaces in PHP 6 - ++$take

From: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:36:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Namespaces in PHP 6 - ++$take
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Hans Lellelid wrote: > > >> I think there is far more > >> demand for a fast & stable PHP then for syntatic sugar features which > >> seem extremely useful, but in the end prove to carry too much baggage. > >> > > > > Nothing has been proven either way.. at least not publicly.. unless I > > just missed it. > > I haven't talked to a single developer a large-scale PHP tool, > application, etc. that wouldn't switch their trunk to using namespaces > tomorrow if they were adopted in the engine. You did now then. YOu can't simply switch to using namespaces as you'd have two branches to maintain that suddendly. Although namespaces would have helped if it was there from the beginning, we have no problems with using prefixes at all. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org

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