Re: Re: [RFC] Reserving More Types in PHP 7

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > Well, it looks to me like all the discussion is around preventing > > class and namespace names like “string”, “float”, etc. Granted, PHP > > class names are case-insensitive, but how hard would it be to reserve > > these in a case-sensitive way? > > With current engine - I'd say it is hard. We can't really say "class > names are case insentitive unless it's "string" or "float" or > "boolean" > in which case they are case sensitive". Imagine how code implementing > such logic would look like, not to talk about the inconsistencies... > > > Lithium, CakePHP, and Drupal all have String classes. These aren’t > > Unfortunately, with scalar types we don't have much choice. I don't see > how scalar types and classes named "string" can coexist. > > > I get that PHP 7 is the big opportunity to break backward > > compatibility, but yeesh, really? It’s like we’re not even trying > > anymore. > > There was a lot of discussion about this topic. Right now, unless > there's a proposal to fix it that works, I don't see what can be done > about it. > It should be possible to write something with PHP Parser detecting all the occurances of "String/string" class usage to at least give a worklog of entries that need to be changed, or maybe generate a patch file that can be applied to the code base after review. > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalyshev@gmail.com > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >