Re: [PATCH] allowing multiple namespaces per file plus namespaces with brackets

Thanks. someone please commit that as fast as posible so no one can say anything ;-) On 8/20/07, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > This patch is also available at > http://pear.php.net/~greg/namespace.patch.txt > > The patch adds the syntax "namespace { *stuff }" and allows multiple > namespaces per file with no performance penalty or added complexity as > only 4 lines of code need to be changed, and 9 lines of code added to > implement this support! > > Basically, there is one use case of multiple namespaces per file that > the patch is designed to support, which is the ability to cram many > files into a single file. I have done this for purposes of distributing > things (prior to phar), it is used by some with phing tasks for > performance reasons, and can have other uses as well. > > The patch provides the ability to do this, for example: > > <?php > namespace One { > require_once 'blah.php'; > class MyClass extends blah > { > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > > namespace Two { > class MyClass > { > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > ?> > > Note that the old format "namespace OneRingToRuleThemAll;" is still > fully supported, and should be the recommended format, as build tools > can easily take an entire file, change namespace .*; into namespace .*{ > and append <?php } ?> to the end of the file. > > The attached patch is against php6, but as you can see, a blind monkey > could port it to PHP_5_3 when the time comes. All of the introduced > changes are now tested, including the error message for nested namespace > declarations, and the error message for multiple namespace declarations > with ; (which was previously untested by .phpt tests) > > Thanks, > Greg > -- David Coallier, Founder & Software Architect, Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com) 51.42.06.70.18