Re: kick-off

> Andrei wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Stig Bakken wrote: > > Welcome to the PEAR mailing list! > > > > I'd like to start off by throwing out the first unresolved issue I can > > think of: > > > > Should PEAR contain classes and extensions only, or functions too? By > > using the Class::method() syntax, functions can be made part of a class > > but still be available directly, so I lean towards using only classes. > > I think that would be better. Allowing functions outside classes could make the namespace pollution pretty hairy, this way people can pretty much use any code from PEAR without worrying about collisions with any pre-existing code they have. That said, does it make sense to prefix all PEAR object names with something? It's a lot more typing and might make the code uglier, but ensures that as long as people don't write packages on their own that start with that prefix, the packages won't step on each other. (i.e. the DB_mysql class gets called "P_DB_mysql" or "PEAR_DB_mysql" or whatever..) -dave