Re: namespace separator and whining

Josh Davis wrote: > 2008/10/27 Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>: > >> 1) check for namespaced\classname >> 2) try to autoload namespaced\classname >> 3) fail > > Ok, that makes some sense wrt your position, which I originally > interpreted as namespace/internal/autoload. > > You want to force users to use the full name at all times. IOW, you > want to sacrifice convenience for performance. On the upside, no > ambiguity whatsoever. "new Foo" is always a namespaced class. The > downside is that it makes it harder for users to copy/paste code from > current tutorials and examples, they will have to fix the class names. > Also, a few people will probably regret not being able to > auto-magically override some internal classes (e.g. override PDO to > log queries and what not) and it will probably increase the amount of > complaints about peppering one's code with backslashes. <?php namespace Foo; use \PDO; $a = new PDO; // $a is an object of class PDO ?> <?php namespace Foo; use Clever\newversion\of\PDO; $a = new PDO; // $a is now an object of class Clever\newversion\of\PDO ?> Greg