Re: ZendEngine2/RFCs/002.txt

[Andrei Zmievski <andrei@ispi.net>] > On Sat, 08 Sep 2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > > 1. Allow mid-file namespaces changes that would allow a file to > > contain: > > > > namespace Foo; > > class Bar ... > > namespace Foo:Bar; > > constants ... > > That's not too bad. > > > 2. Change the entire PEAR class<->file scheme to a class<->namespace > > scheme. This would be pretty ugly, we'd end up with fully > > qualified class names such as "HTML_Table:Table" or > > "HTML:Table:Table". > > Ack. > > > 3. Make a namespace "instantiatable" like I suggested a month or two > > ago. This is what Perl/CPAN ended up doing, probably for the same > > reasons I'm losing hair over this. :-) > > What's an instantiable namespace? You can basically regard the "namespace" statement as a class declaration, the functions following it are class methods, the variables are class variables. The constants are just namespaced constants. When Zend is done parsing the file, it has built a class definition just like it would with "class". Then you can instantiate the "namespace class". There are some problems with this, but I'm not in a position to tell if it'd be impossible to do in ZE2. :-) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway