Re: Namespaces patch backport

"internals-newb" answer. AFAIK namespaces was a feature originally planned for PHP 5. I believe the most important long term advantage is simply that projects using PHP 5 do not have to wait approx. 10 years (pure guestimation) until PHP 6 is widely supported to be able to begin to use namespaces. Larry Garfield wrote:

OK... internals-newb question. Doesn't backporting everything from 6.x to 5.x except Unicode automatically undermine PHP 6 adoption? If PHP 5.5 ends up being practically identical to PHP 6 unicode=off because everything has been backported... what's the incentive for PHP 6 unicode=off to even exist? Except of course for very subtle differences that didn't get backported so 5.5 is *almost* PHP 6 unicode=off, so no one even deals with PHP 6 unicode=off except for those projects that actively try to run on everything they can for mass-market compatibility. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to use namespaces earlier. I'm confused as to what the long-term advantage is here. On Monday 23 July 2007, Jani Taskinen wrote:

Exactly, it will go to 5.3 of course. --Jani On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:06 +0400, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

There is no way to put this patch into 5.2. Dmitry.

-----Original Message----- From: Timm Friebe [mailto:thekid@thekid.de] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:58 PM To: PHPdev Subject: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport Hi, I've backported the namespaces patch to current CVS HEAD. Here it is: http://sitten-polizei.de/php/php5-namespaces.diff I've tested it with the .phpt-tests Dmitry provided. Enjoy:) - Timm -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php