Re: RE: </endnamespacediscussion>

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Thomas Lee wrote: > I disagree that PHP being a dynamic language justifies the > introduction of deeply unpopular syntax. I mean, PHP developers are > your end users. Bad past design decisions aside, you don't want to > alienate your users. > > And yes, this has probably been argued in the past. Unfortunately, it > looks like you have people's attention *now*. > > You're also right in that we can choose another language. I just > wonder why you'd be so eager to encourage it. > > Anyway, my point is that there may be other options. Such as putting > off a long-sought feature until it can be implemented properly. How would delyaing it help? We'd need to have the same discussion anyway. If we could have made :: work, we would have. Greg (and others) spend countless hours trying out different concepts, with different pros and cons -- you can find those on the wiki as RFCs. The only way how all issues could be solved was by picking a different namespace separator. There would have been anything that could have changed this without creating any sort of BC issues. From the possible namespace separators, \ was the best one as we could see. That's how it is, that's how it will be. Now get some coffee and quit bitching. Derick -- HEAD before 5_3!: http://tinyurl.com/6d2esb http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org