Re: Simple Namespace Proposal

On 7/5/07, Stefan Priebsch <stefan.priebsch@e-novative.de> wrote:

David Coallier schrieb: I would probably be in favor of throwing a notice or a warning when someone modifies a built-in function (or even throw an exception) and that way as soon as you do such thing you would know right away that you modified something and you would know where the modification happened which would make things much easier for people developing and debugging applications. The problem is that this kind of overloading makes a nice feature as well. This is runied by throwing an exception, and cautious developers will at least get nervous when they see a notice. I could imagine that by adding something like "overrides foo()" or "overloads foo()" to a function/method declaration the developer could make clear that he willingly overrides a built-in function, and if this is missing, an exception is being thrown. This may be a little over the top, however.

Yep I see what you mean.. could even be something like: namespace UTF8; overrides { strlen(); strcmp(); } function strlen($string) { return strlen($string) + 666; // This is just an example ! } ... I kinda like the overrides part, however I wonder if people will actually use it.. Oh well.. my two cents are now gone.

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