Re: Question about Namespace patch

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrew, Andrew Minerd wrote: > Well, first of all, not exactly. I think you meant: not import everything from two or more > namespaces with conflicting names. Secondly, that's not the only solution. You could import > everything from one, and not import from the other (or use a shorter prefix). Thirdly, you're > not preventing collisions _at all_: > > import Zend::DB; > import My::DB; > import Woot::Database as DB; I don't quite understand your example. When I look at it in real life, I would go for: import Zend::DB as ZBD; import My::DB as MDB; import Woot::Database as DB; I mean, that's is the point, to have more readable code == shorter identifiers, isn't it? So your code continues to read (just made up): $oZdb = ZDB::factor('mysql'); $oMdb = MDB::getInstance('oracle'); $oWdb = DB::getDriver('postgres'); instead of: $oZdb = Zend::DB:factor... $oMdb = My::DB::getInstance $oWdb = Woot::Database::getDriver.. Isn't that a win, at last? That's how I understood. Maybe I got that wrong. - - Markus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGpPYT1nS0RcInK9ARAmQmAKDGsYj/ZY0FNojQobKb3bK2NL6QDgCcDKgl LnyIP65ymnx180f7/WD5WfM= =LjpG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----