Re: Re: towards a 5.3 release

Elizabeth M Smith schreef:

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

Hi!

Personally I don't see the point of of having functions in namespaces if you can't "use" them in a global scope.

You mean, if you can do foo() it has a point but if it's F::foo() it doesn't? Then I think your point was purely cosmetical from the start and wasn't real either way. Saving 3-4 keystrokes was never a major goal. namespaces weren't really meant as mechanism to replace functions in code without anybody noticing - they are not that hack. It might be a neat hack for some uses - but I just don't think it has anything to do with namespaces.

Depends on what you think namespaces are for. For me they are ways to "package up" code without interfering with built in PHP functions or other libraries I wish to use. I don't want to retrain myself or others to call all functions in my code as though they were static methods. I want to be able to have functions with the same names as php functions without prefixing or other extra typing - not because it saves keystrokes, but because it's confusing - is that a function call or a method call?

ofcourse that whole issues actually arises from the brilliant decision to use '::' as the namespace resolution operator. not that functions shouldn't be fully aliasable if classes can be.

Thanks, Elizabeth