Re: Reserved namespaces

IMHO, the prefix will turn everything more readable... I already saw people experiencing some doubts regarding this piece of code. I had to illustrate it everything. namespace Foo; class Bar { public function test() { try { do_some_stuf(); } catch (Exception $e) { // Refers to Foo\Exception // Special handling of Foo Exception } catch (\Exception $e) { // Refers to PHP Exception // Special handling of Exception } } } I just updated the code to explain wtf is happening... but he was just trying to do a simple try { .. } catch (Exception $e) { ... } and thought it was a bug since it was refering to Foo\Exception. Sounds newbie, but you will have troubles in the future. Regards, On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:58:22PM -0800, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >> Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: >> >I think the decision was to not yet bother with reserving namespaces or >> >starting to namespace-ify extensions. We might however want to put out a >> >naming guide for namespaces. >> >> I agree. Whether the error is raised or not on reserved namespaces can be >> done later, but we should explicitly indicate that certain namespaces are >> off-limits. > > Could take the simple convention that exists in perl with modules. > > Module names begin with a capital letter, pragmase are lower case, thus you have: > > use strict; > > use IO::File > > Nobody is made to do anything, however you loose the option to complain if your > namespace starts with a lower case character. > > -- > Alain Williams > Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. > +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ > Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: > http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php > Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ > #include <std_disclaimer.h> > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Guilherme Blanco - Web Developer CBC - Certified Bindows Consultant Cell Phone: +55 (16) 9215-8480 MSN: guilhermeblanco@hotmail.com URL: http://blog.bisna.com São Paulo - SP/Brazil