Re: Why are the PHP namespaces different compared to C++?

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Yes, PHP namespaces are completely different from what you'd be used >> to in C++. In all honesty namespaces were never well designed in PHP >> and were implemented in a haphazard way, which is why I generally >> don't bother using them. > > I just love how people assume if something does not fit their specific > use case people implementing it must be stupid and didn't bother to > actually think about it. If only they gave it some though, they would > definitely would do it exactly as you want. I wasn't assuming. I was outright making a factual statement. I never made any implications of the intellectual levels of those implementing the spec. I understand the RFC full well and know why the design is the way it is. I was answering the ops question. Please read what I said before you make your own assumptions. > >> To clarify, importing namespaces in PHP isn't like importing >> namespaces in C++ at all, really. You are merely aliasing namespaces > > There's no importing namespaces in PHP, period. It is not "messy", it is > by design, and if you bothered to read extensive discussions that > happened on the list at the time, you'd know why. But of course who > needs that. Right, that's exactly what I said. Thanks for reiterating. > >> It simply doesn't work like that because PHP's namespaces are >> implemented in such a way that they don't really resemble namespaces. > > They do not resemble namespaces in C++. They resemble namespaces in PHP. > That's because PHP is not C++. > Sure, I just said that. Albeit I said it a more indirect manner. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227