Re: Simple Namespace Proposal

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:31:34 -0700 stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) wrote: > I understand we're forcing some structure here, but I think > actually it's good - and many other languages have it either > by design or de-facto. Personally, I'm of the opinion that file structure should be an application concern, not a language concern. I'd also venture that many of the languages that enforce a file structure do so because they include a packaging system; PHP doesn't. > And in fact we started doing it in php 5 with autoloading and > classname->filename paradigm. Not really. There's nothing to stop someone from lumping multiple classes into a single file AND using an autoloader, provided they have a scheme for locating the specific file containing any given class. (There's also nothing stopping them from skipping the autoloader alltogether.) Similarly, allowing multiple namespaces per file does not limit the developer in any way. Not allowing them does. I always thought a language should be designed to empower it's developers, not get in their way. -- Andrew Minerd Software Architect The Selling Source, Inc.