On 22.08.2007 21:50, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
I don't think it's _required_ for the constants to be useful.
Well, depends on how you define requirements. Having out-of-class
constants is not required either - Java does fine without it :) However,
thinking about how people would use namespaces, I think it would be
very useful.
I believe useful things should not bring confusion, which is clearly the case.
We do have runtime constants created with define(), so the critical need in runtime
namespace constants is quite questionable to me.
And btw we have some precedent of reusing syntax - "static"
means different things as "static function" and "static variable", and
very well might to acquire yet another meaning as static:: IIRC. I don't
say it's necessarily good thing, but it's not without precedent.
Inconsistencies and mistakes done in the past cannot be a reason to
create more of them, so I don't understand why you even mentioned 'static'.
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Wbr,
Antony Dovgal
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