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

On 8/14/07, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > > OO. And anyway, are we struggling to find excuses here? Can we in no way > > ever at least try to be consistent in anything we do? That JS argument is an > > How "consistent" had acquired a meaning of "doing it my way"? There's > nothing inconsistent in the name "namespace" and it is very consistent > with what people understand - I quoted wiki on that. I'm still waiting > for that non-"C++ does it with braces" argument btw. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect > stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ > (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I am for package because: - The keywords are actually the words used in similar technology as such as java and python - The single namespace per file is common to a package design but hey - No hierarchical namespaces (within one namespace) - I believe it will be easier to anyone who will be learning our namespace/package to keep on going learning other languages. Since the our implementation is very package like, it will not be so much confusing for someone in C++ that will be using namespaces and will be simple for someone coming from Java to use our package system (yet less complex than java, thanks for that) - For Stas (There are no brackets) :) - Because no one can say "Do you have a patch?" since there is already one made and ready to be applied. I now stand as a spectator. do I get a 2 cents or so ? :P 0x02 cents. D