Re: Class name clashing

Derick Rethans wrote:

You should prefix your classes in the first place, as per: http://www.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.php especially point 1 of: http://www.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.rules.php

In the end (After reading the page on smalltalk), I concede. Stanislav makes some excellent points.. and while this is an annoyance, I agree I can (as well as other developers) be a little more creative in class/method naming to not find themselves in an issue with clashing. That being said: I still think there exists validity in figuring out if adding a layer of 'user context' to the tokenizer/parser would be an interesting project. I would be interested to see if a) it could be done, and b) if it could be done with minimal impact on performance.. Which I have to say, is a key reason I have chosen PHP as a devlopment platform. I also think having a context aware parser/tokenizer would segue into namespacing, which I have also heard could be a feature in the future of PHP.. Either way, I am dropping this for now, but perhaps when I can dedicate some time to the 'C frame of mind', I'll start poking around in php-source again. In any case, thanks, -ralph