Re: RFC: Dropping Namespace

I think namespaces are very useful when it comes to PHP in large scale applications with hundreds of functions/classes. On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 16:39 -0600, Brian Moon wrote: > > With all the above considerations, especially my first point, I still have not > > heard any good reason why namespaces in the current implementation are actually > > useful - or what particular case they solve... so I am wondering, are they > > really useful? I come now to the conclusion that they are not, and for myself > > (and most likely my work projects) I would have to decide not to go with > > namespaces, but instead stick with the 3 letter prefixing. Something that I > > have totally no problem with, as it is nice and easy. > > I hate to, but I agree. If the only point is to make class naming > pretty, it is kind of pointless. Give me namespaces that scope > variables to a file and then we have something. Yeah, I still code the > way PHP intended you to code, by templateing files together and not > making gynormous classes to print out some simple HTML over and over. > > It would only be useful in that my company's code would not conflict > with some 3rd party software we use. > > -- > > Brian Moon > Senior Developer > ------------------------------ > http://dealnews.com/ > It's good to be cheap =) >