Re: Namespaces internal refactoring

Hey Stas On 15 Aug 2016 00:35, "Stanislav Malyshev" <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > A realization that needs to be made is that beginners would be using > > libraries that requires to make valid restrictions, preventing those > > beginners to mess up with code they shouldn't. So even if the use case > > is only valid for 0.01% of code producers, it might be valid for 20%+ of > > consumers. > > I don't think PHP needs more bondage-and-discipline. If beginners "mess > up with code they shouldn't" that is usually, in my experience, a sign > of library authors not serving their use case well, and not implementing > functionality that they need. Either because they didn't know, or > because their opinion about user's needs differs from user's opinion > about their needs. In this case, I'm on the user's side. Hacker's ethos > is doing things other people think can't be done. *You* don't think so, but this happened many times also with non-beginners (what Guilherme was talking about). Conventions are not sufficient to keep a codebase consistent and safe: explicit rules do that.