Re: [RFC] Namespace syntax decision

From: Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:40:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Namespace syntax decision
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Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Internals, > > we all were asked to stop discussing syntax of namespaces as we were told > that we would decide after the namespace functionality was fully implemented. > Now I think that the functionallity is pretty much settled we should > revisit the syntax. We all have been very patient so far. Anyway here goes > my take on it: > > PHP is very close to Java and C++ in terms of Syntax. And many of our users > are familiar with one or even both of them. Also we have a tendency to > especially take syntax from those two or be in line with those two > languages. That said I see two ways: > > 1) namespace foo { } > > 2) package foo; I did not notice until now that you had changed the keyword to package. -1 on this change. Either namespace blah; or namespace blah {}. Greg

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