Re: RFC: Dropping Namespace
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:09:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: Dropping Namespace | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:48:58 +0100, Robert Lemke <robert@typo3.org> wrote:
> Finally, another important reason for us to not use namespaces is the
> lack of available refactoring tools.
> Imagine you want to rename a class "T3_Cool_Fancy_Stuff" to
> "T3_Cool_Fancy_Tool". A global search / replace
> and renaming the class file will usually do - if you use the full
> class name everywhere. However, just trying to
> search and replace "Stuff" will probably break your code.
How can there be "available refactoring tools" that account for namespaces when released
PHP doesn't have namespaces yet?
--Larry Garfield