AW: [PHP-DEV][RFC][DISCUSSION] Group Use Declarations

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Markus Fischer [mailto:markus@fischer.name] > Gesendet: Samstag, 31. Januar 2015 16:11 > An: internals@lists.php.net > Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC][DISCUSSION] Group Use Declarations > > On 31.01.15 01:09, Marcio Almada wrote: > > After a period of research along with part of the PHP community I'd > > like to present this RFC which aims to improve PHP namespaces. > > > > The RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/group_use_declarations > > Along with its pull request: > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1005 > > > > Needless to say, I'm open to suggestions that could improve the proposal. > > The RFC says: > "Group use statements makes it easier to identify that multiple imported entities are from > the same module." > > IMHO that's too subjective. What "is hard" with the current state of affairs? > > > Btw, here's a CON you can add to the RFC (and, btw., it doesn't contain > any): > - Prevents searching sources literally for used namespaces > > > Another observation thing from my side: with proper tooling I almost can't remember when I > wrote the statements by > hand; they usually a) get automatically managed b) thus alphabetically sorted and c) folded > away in general. > > What is the real benefit of using groups it and who's the group benefiting from that > change? Maybe you can expand on > that in the RFC. > > sincerely, > - Markus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php [Robert Stoll] I agree with Markus, the benefits for users which are using IDEs is marginal. But I suppose all other users could actually benefit from it. Yet, with the drawback described by Markus - searching for use statements without a clever IDE will be more difficult. Anyway, thinking in terms of scripting it seems to be a nice feature. Therefore +1