Re: Namespaces bug
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:36:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Namespaces bug | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shane Caraveo wrote:
> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > Couldn't you make the same argument for:
> >
> > function A() {
> > function B() {
> > }
> > }
>
> I would :)
>
> The syntax is meaningless and confusing if the program does not operate
> the way it is written. By all sensible considerations, B should be
> local to A. Since it is not, the syntax should cause a parser error,
> and the same with namespaces. And then what happens with that stuff
> when, at some point in the future, proper scoping is implemented?
I'm not arguing that it is correct, I am simply saying that it is exactly
the same issue and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to disallow
it for namespaces, but allow it for functions.
-Rasmus