Re: namespaces and alpha3

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 14:10:50 Steph Fox wrote: > I'm +1 on ripping out and leaving til 6.0. I don't think there is enough > time between now and the 5.3.0 code freeze to make major changes to the > language syntax. Major changes like ripping the feature that most people are looking forward to in 5.3 out? > Making -> do double duty and adding E_STRICT messages to > currently legal code really doesn't look like a good option to me, much > less during a point release and even less during the final moments of a > release cycle. That E_STRICT was proposed for 6, not for 5.3, and is not a requirement - and about "double duty", it's not really unintuitive to reference to "members" of classes the same way you reference to "members" of instances. > 'An announcement has been done on php.net' simply isn't a good enough > reason to screw up the language; we can write new announcements and even > explanations. And we already have *most* of a working implementation in > 6.0, so it's not like ripping it out of 5.3 means starting over from > scratch. I would love to see the public reaction to those "new announcements and explanations", so in a way it's a win-win situation for me. Regards, Stefan