Re: Make primitive type names reserved words (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] 5.4 features for vote (long))

On 2011-07-10, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > On 7/10/11 9:41 AM, Patrick ALLAERT wrote: > > Developer may have taken care of defining them in a specific > > namespace, would it be possible to not break their application while > > making them reserved keywords in the global namespace only? > > I don't think there's such thing in PHP as namespaced keywords. Keywords > are processed by the language parser, which knows next to nothing of > namespaces. > We could, maybe, prohibit creation of classes with names identical to > type names, which is different from making it reserved word, and on that > stage we know the full class name. I think that's a bad idea. The point of namespaces is to allow us to override classes (and functions, and constants) within that namespace. If I can't do this: namespace Foo { class String { } } then I'd consider the implementation too restrictive. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc