Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages]
| From: | Richard Quadling | Date: | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:52:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages] | ||
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On 13/08/07, Tijnema <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since JavaScript (or ECMAScript) doesn't have namespaces, people that
> hear the name namespace for php will either don't know what it is, or
> think that it's the same as the C implementation.
>
> Tijnema
I don't know what namespaces look like in other langs, but the idea of
a "namespace" is common to many languages and promoting encapsulation
to stop adding things to the global namespace is common also.
namespace works very well for what it does (as I see it).
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