Re: namespaces and alpha3

Tony Bibbs wrote:

This is what I've be fearing. First slated for 5.0. Then 5.3. Now 6.0. It appears there's consensus to rip it out which, in my prior post, I was all for if people felt it meant getting it right. Apparently that is the case. I guess my main question is what keeps this from being pushed yet again once 6.0 drops? From the community standpoint we keep hearing "its coming, its coming" but here we are still waiting. Again, I'm fine with the decision but I think others share similar concerns and will want to hear a commitment (dare I say promise) to adding namespaces to 6.0. --Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: Stefan Walk <et@php.net> To: internals@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:46:58 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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? I'd really like to see namespace in 5.3. After reading most of the threads I'm still not real sure what the *real* problem is with the current implementation. It's down to stuff with constants and functions. IMO namespaces are very much an OO thing, meaning constants and functions should be in classes anyway. There's only a problem if you want there to be a problem. Foo::Bar::baz() is in class Bar in namespace Foo. Foo::Bar::BAZ is a constant in class Bar in namespace Foo.

Ron