Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages]

On Monday 13 August 2007, Tijnema wrote: > On 8/13/07, Keryx Web <webmaster@keryx.se> wrote: > > Stanislav Malyshev skrev: > > > And they, btw, are not ashamed of calling it namespaces just because > > > it's not c++ ;) > > > > Exactly. That was my main point. And, as I said,ECMAScript 4 will most > > probably be the main other language for most ordinary PHP developers, > > not Java and certainly not C. Especially the newbie ones! > > > > From a pedagogic point of view I'd say "namespaces" is the better name. > > > > > > Lars Gunther > > Uhh, ECMAScript?? ECMAScript is the formal name for what most people call Javascript. Technically Javascript is the Mozilla implementation of ECMAScript and JScript is the MS implementation. 70% of the world just calls it "Javascript", and 29% calls it "Ajax" because they don't know any better. :-) I believe the original point is that for most PHP programmers their other main languages will be Javascript and SQL, not C++ or C#, so if the goal is to use a name that's predictable for someone coming from another language we should assume Javascript as that other language, not Java or C#. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson