It seems like the history of every language goes through this... Some solve it cleanly, from the beginning with a Documented Feature:
If I had a time machine, way more brains and C skill, and could waylay Rasmus back in 1995/1996, you'd have something like: The PHP_* name space is reserved for Core PHP Features. Then everybody would know that the internal PHP Date object was gonna be PHP_Date, and nobody would be dumb enough to use that in their app. code, and if they were dumb enough, you'd point to the docs. As it stands now, you'd almost want to MD5() all your class names in a code generation phase, just to be safe :-v -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php