Re: Namespaces in Core

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Sara Golemon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm strongly against use of the PHP namespace as a blanket namespace > > for bundled PHP extensions. The PHP namespace should be used only > > for functionality that is actually in some way related to PHP. For > > example, the php-ast extension could reasonably be namespaced as > > php\ast, as it provides an AST for PHP specifically. Similarly the > > tokenizer extension could reasonably be namespaced as php\tokenizer. > > > Okay, I'm pickin' up what yer layin' down. Perhaps the question then > should be asked in the other direction: > > Given PHP's long history and fanatical dedication to BC, should all > bundled/core classes/functions/constants ALWAYS remain in the root > namespace with a strong advisory to userspace libraries and > applications to use vendor namespacing (which by and large, is > precisely the status quo). That would be my preference. > If that makes sense, then that's another reason not to bring Sodium in > as a namespaced library of functions. Exactly my conclusion :-) cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: https://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug