Re: my last attempt at sanity with namespaces

Chris Stockton wrote: > I have been watching the namespace conversations for months and I can not > get my head around this fixation on a new separator. Other languages get by > without separate resolution syntax, why not solve these ambiguities through > rules of precedence like everyone else? Throw possible ambiguity warnings if > we don't mind looking ahead for the performance hit and give users the > ability to alias their namespaces with AS when conflicts do occur they can > be easily fixed. > using BadNamedLib as BetterNamedLib; > using BadNamedLib; > > Resolve using :: as a separator, have some simple rules and document them, > first namespace's loaded classes takes precedence over the last. Constansts > are more important then classes, or vice versa. Document the determined > precedence. Giving users a tool to alias namespaces solves a lot of the > namespace resolution issues. Hi Chris, This is actually option #3 on the list of solutions at http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceissues Steph: can you catalog this as a vote for it? Greg