Re: Re: towards a 5.3 release

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:45 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:39 -0400, Elizabeth M Smith wrote: > > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > >> And what happens when you have two libraries and each has their own Date > > >> implementation? How is that any different? If you could alias in > > >> functions, you'd simply alias them in differently - call one _() and one > > >> new_gettext - that's the point of aliasing, to avoid collisions > > > > > > It's not different. But if you can have _() and new_gettext() - how > > > exactly is it so much better than Foo::_() and Bar::_()? So different > > > that the former is OK but the latter is absolutely useless? Just because > > > it the latter has ::? > > > > What is the point? Wouldn't it be just as well to have static methods > > in a class instead? What do I gain by having functions in namespaces? > > For me it's useless because there's another way to do exactly the same > > thing...don't we already have enough of that in PHP? > > Bad argument... there's another way to do namespaces without namespaces > too... it's called prefixing. Many, many, MANY developers still take a > procedural approach to development and as such many functions have the > naming conflicts. These libraries (as they may be) are not necessarily > under the control of the person wanting to use them and so punting > functions to classes may not be a viable option. In case it wasn't obvious btw, I was advocating namespace support for functions and not suggesting prefixing :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP