OOP translation of _ and \ to DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR - proposed tweak to standard

Hi, Since no one is choosing to respond to the technical question I raised about the proposed standard, I'd like to ignore the folks who raised it for the moment and start an actual discussion on the proposed naming standard. I'll start with two separate threads, this one, and the one titled "OOP naming - proposed tweak to standard" Summary: ======== new: Change class name => path resolution so that _ and T_NS_SEPARATOR are always translated to DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. old: _ is only translated to DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR if in the Class name (not in the namespace name) Details: ======== The standard proposed is: vendor/package/Class/Name.php: <?php namespace vendor\package; class Class_Name {} ?> and: vendor/package_name/ClassName.php: <?php namespace vendor\package_name; class ClassName {} ?> and finally: vendor/package_name/subnamespace/another_subnamespace/Class/Name.php: <?php namespace vendor\package_name\subnamespace\another_subnamespace; class Class_Name {} ?> All of these result in a very complex resolution scheme for autoload: 1) split on namespace separator 2) find the first component that begins with a capital letter 3) split each component after the capital letter on underscore 4) concatenate with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR 5) append ".php" and include Before we even begin talking about the vendor\package\Classname, let's talk about the above. 5 steps to locate a class is too complicated. The underscore is not used to split a path if it is in the namespace, but it is when it is in the class name. Better is to simply specify either that both _ and \ are translated to DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR always, or that ONLY \ is translated to directory separator. The first results in this generic autoload: function standard_autoload($class) { $file = str_replace(array('_', T_NS_SEPARATOR), array(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR), $class) . '.php'; include $file; } resolution scheme: 1) split on namespace separator and underscore 2) concatenate with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR 3) append ".php" and include This is far simpler, no? It allows straightforward eyeball resolution of classname => class path as well Thanks, Greg