Re: true namespaces, yet another point of view

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > On 24.09.2008, at 01:17, Guilherme Blanco wrote: > >> For those that do not understand very well the explanation of jvlad... >> >> He's suggesting to change the class struct to be an scope struct, and >> have a property that tells if it's a namespace or a class, and reuse >> the implementation of class which already works very well. >> The nested support is achieved afai understand through the Adjacency >> List algorithm... can you confirm this to me? > > > or just leave the organization of things to classes (with long class > names with a nice prefix to prevent collissions) and leave it to > class_alias() (and equivalent features for functions .. also with the > option of a compile time aliasing) to handle the aliasing. > > this removes the need for namespaces and use statements, while making it > possible to make class/function names short (that are long for > organizational and collision prevention reasons). Hi, This approach doesn't work because aliasing with class_alias() does not allow name conflicts: <?php class foo { function __construct(){echo 'hi',"\n";}} class_alias('foo', 'XMLReader'); $a = new XMLReader; ?> results in: Warning: Cannot redeclare class XMLReader in /home/cellog/workspace/php5/test.php on line 4 whereas: <?php class foo { function __construct(){echo 'hi',"\n";}} use ::foo as XMLReader; $a = new XMLReader; ?> results in: hi Greg