> On Jun 28, 2024, at 7:45 AM, Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes > <mailto:rob@bottled.codes>> wrote: >> Fast forward a bit - PHP 5.3, and the introduction of namespaces were >> introduced to deal with the overloaded symbol tables. They are a bit a >> hotwire as (if I'm not mistaken, it's been a couple years since I read the >> discussion on it) they just quietly prepend the namespace string in front of >> the name of all new symbols declared in the namespace for use elsewhere. As >> a result, PHP namespaces don't do some of the things we see in the >> namespaces of other languages (looking at Java and C# here). For example, >> privacy modifiers within a namespace aren't a thing. > > This would be nice to have ... maybe. But namespace have been around, what, > 10-15 years? I think if someone wanted to "fix" it, it would have been fixed > by now.
Or not. Never underestimate the power of inertia for maintaining a less than ideal status-quo, especially when the decision to change has to be approved by a 2/3rd vote of committee. 🤷♂️ -Mike
