Re: true namespaces, yet another point of view

From: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:57:41 +0000
Subject: Re: true namespaces, yet another point of view
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This one time, at band camp, "jvlad" <dmda@yandex.ru> wrote: > May I suggest something in this area? May I suggest something also.. Lets just let namespaces die and let it become a repressed memory as it seems it is more trouble that it is worth. Seriously. For 10+ years we have got on just fine without them, and the amount of work to get a second-best implementation that nobody agrees on hardly seems benificial. The gains of namespaces are minimal at best, because a few cannot be bothered with some simple prefixing. PHP 5.3 release is looming, and there is STILL conflict about implementation. The current approach is a long way from what was thought of as namespace support and it seems nobody is completely happy with any model that has been put forward. The current implementation is nothing but a series of comprimses, each one taking away a little of the functionality that was first envisaged. Lets just let it die. It is un-needed, un-wanted by many, and the end result seems to be less that optimal, or even a true implementation of namespaces. Kevin

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