Re: kick-off

From: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:23:08 +0000
Subject: Re: kick-off
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David Sklar wrote: > > 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..) Yuck, I really don't think we should do that. I feel bad enough having people type "DB_foo::bar()" already. :-) - Stig

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