On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 16:05, tyson andre <tysonandre...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marco, > > >Hey Tyson, > > > > I know I'm being stubborn, but we have namespaces, but also an "old > guard" that doesn't understand its own programming language 🤷♀️ > > I assume it's a case of not liking them or assuming others wouldn't like > them instead of not understanding them. > Namespaces for https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/ has been standard for a > long, long time. > > And attempts to standardize on adopting them have been unpopular - > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_namespace_policy > Existing internal functionality for working with iterators and arrays is > in the global namespace. > > - E.g. it would be slightly more inconvenient to need to write > `print(\PHP\get_debug_type($var))` or `use function PHP\get_debug_type; > ...; get_debug_type($var);` > and some developers wouldn't like seeing the extra imports or fully > qualified names mixed with code that doesn't use namespaces. > - It's inconsistent for some new categories of functionality to have > namespaces when others wouldn't - the php namespace policy vote seems to > indicate there's no consensus on what naming pattern we'd have for > namespaces. > > Even in brand new categories of functionality such as FFI or PhpToken, > we've went with the global namespace. > Small nitpick but FFI classes are under the FFI\ namespace, e.g. FFI\CData [1] George P. Banyard [1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.ffi-cdata.php > > Regards, > - Tyson
