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

On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > If PHP team release in the news: > > > > PHP has namespace support! > > OR > > PHP has package support! > > > > Everyone will understand what does that mean. Those that do not > > I wouldn't. And that's not because I'm so dense, but because "package" > could mean anything, from next generation autoloader (I myself proposed > such concept a while ago, and others did too) to integrating PHAR > support into core. That's a fair point, I think. "Package" seems to imply "distributable". While one can use a namespace as a way to segregate a distributable package, that's not the only use of it and not the one I see myself using it for. -- 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