RE: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

Names in namespace will never conflict with user names in global namespace. Dmitry. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Moon [mailto:brianm@dealnews.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:24 PM > To: Dmitry Stogov > Cc: 'David Coallier'; 'Stefan Priebsch'; 'PHP internals'; > Stanislav Malyshev > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal > > > Dmitry Stogov wrote: > > I think the following example is much better, however I am not sure > > it's a right direction. Namespaces are intended to declare > names that > > can conflict with names from other namespaces (including global > > namespace), do I am not sure that we need special keyword > for internal > > functions. > > > > We'll think little bit more. Anyway thank you for feedback and idea. > > > > <?php > > namespace UTF8; > > > > overloaded class Exception { > > } > > > > overloaded function strlen() { > > } > > ?> > > I could live with this. Would this only override built-in > functions or > any function in the global scope. Or, rather, would you have > to do this > for all functions in the global scope? If so, I see a new > problem. =) > If I write my project using name spaces, and have all my functions > inside the Phorum namespace and some other project does not use > namespaces and has the same function name, my project now > throws errors > if I do not use overloaded. > > -- > > Brian Moon > Senior Developer > ------------------------------ > http://dealnews.com/ > It's good to be cheap =) >