Re: Re: cvs: php4 /pear Makefile.in/pear/CacheFunction_Cache.php

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > > Quoting Sebastian Bergmann <sb@sebastian-bergmann.de>: > > > True, but there are things like the cache_*() functions that should be > > functions, and not classes. > > All I'm asking is that you justify that statement. Static classes are possible > in php, and are currently the only way we have of curtailing namespace impact > right now. > > There's been a lot of discussion recently on making php work better for > enterprise needs; one of the things that would help this is to have the > infrastructure that we use - things like PEAR classes - be very clean in their > use of the global namespace. I agree. We already have a few methods that are only used as static methods, such as PEAR::isError() and DB::connect(). - Stig