Re: Reserved namespaces

Alain Williams wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:06:01PM +0100, Christian Schneider wrote: >> Things gettings reserved at a later stage (like originally keywords, now >> namespaces) can lead to a big deal of frustration. Therefore I think it >> is crucial to have a clear naming guide now. > > +1 > >> And these guidelines have to be noticed by everybody who starts to use >> namespaces so they have to be placed prominently. > >> Personally I'd even prefer them to be enforced in code so they can't be >> missed. > > No: > * there are occasional times when rules might want to be broken > * to enforce it just makes the language/compiler bigger > * If it is advertised and someone breaks the rules - then it is their problem. > >> Removing restrictions later on causes less trouble so I wouldn't mind >> too much if a couple of namespaces (or namespace prefixes) are reserved >> but never used. > > As I suggested, do it the way that perl does: it is keyed off the case of the characters. > So, the reserved spaces could be one of: > > 1) entirely lower case (or perhaps just start with lower case) > 2) entirely upper case People, can we all agree to remember that PHP is case-insensitive with the exception of variable names and a few constants? Thanks, Greg