On Fri, 2024-08-23 at 07:39 +0100, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:
>
>
> On 23 August 2024 00:15:19 BST, Mike Schinkel <m...@newclarity.net>
> wrote:
> > Having to prefix with a name like Foo, e.g. Foo\strlen() is FAR
> > PREFERABLE to _\strlen() because at least it provides satiating
> > information rather than the empty calories of a cryptic shorthand.
> > #jmtcw, anyway.
>
> I knew I'd regret keeping the example short. Realistically, it's not
> a substitute for "\Foo\strlen", it's a substitute for
> "\AcmeComponents\SplineReticulator\Utilities\Text\strlen".
>
> Having a syntax for "relative to current" is incredibly common in
> other path-like syntaxes. The most common marker is ".", and ".\foo"
> is literally how you'd refer to something in the current directory
> under DOS/Windows. But unfortunately, we don't have "." available, so
> I wondered if "_" would feel similar enough.
>
> Another option would be to find a shorter keyword than "namespace" to
> put it in front. "ns\strlen(...)" is an obvious step from what we
> have currently, but it's not very obvious what it means, so maybe
> there's a different word we could use.
>
> Rowan Tommins
> [IMSoP]
Could be mistaken, but I think the way PHP handles namespaces
internally is sort of the same as a long string, rather than as a
tree/hierarchy.
ie. \AcmeComponents\SplineReticulator\Utilities\Text\strlen
is really like:
class AcmeComponentsSplineReticulatorUtilitiesTextstrlen {
public function __construct(){
}
}
And the "AcmeComponentsSplineReticulatorUtilitiesText" just kind of
gets appended to the front when the class name is registered.
I haven't done work on the namespace code, but I recall reading this
somewhere recently.
