Re: namespace RFC

On 31.08.2008, at 15:37, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Hello all, All the recent discussions about namespaces, have left many of us wondering if our implementation is rock solid or not. However the discussions were not really well organized. This is why I am thankful that Marcus and Felipe have spend the better part of this Sunday to write an RFC [1] that hopefully summarizes all the key concerns. Also they have created a patch that they feel addresses the concerns.

[1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespacecurlies

I have also asked in my blog about practical experiences from people using PHP 5.3.0 with namespaces in development: http://pooteeweet.org/blog/1288 The gist in the first 2 responses seem to be that they are ok with the current state of things. Anyways, anyone who cares should make their opinion known on this list as clear as possible by Monday (if someone is aware of a good discussion outside of internals please also let us know), so that Johannes and I can make a decision no later than Tuesday without having to feel like dictators. Personally at this point I would leave things as is for now, move to beta and hope that this also increases the number of end users testing and giving feedback. While I hope that we dont have to do big changes after going to beta, if feedback makes it necessary, we obviously have to accept it. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org