Re: kick-off
| From: | Matt Allen | Date: | Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:29:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: kick-off | ||
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Gday all,
I reckon we stick with the Classes only, could get scary when we have a
huge amount of PEAR packages if we include functions.
Matta
"Stig S. 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.
> If we do decide on having functions too, we should consider namespace
> issues: should functions then have a prefix based on the name of the
> package they are from (for example "db_mysql_query"), or should they
> have simpler names?
>
> - Stig