On 16.10.2007, at 13:43, Hans Moog wrote:
I agree. But PHP (until PHP 5.2.x) was the wrong language for everyone who wanted to use namespaces, too. But a programming language is able to evolve and sometimes new features are really usefull and should be included. And in this special case the new feature would not harm anyone because it would be fully backward compatible and in my humble opinion it would push php to an enterprise level when it comes to object orientation.
The point is that I do not see this feature at all relevant to solving the web problem. This is where PHP needs to focus. Namespaces help in solving the web problem, because it eases cooperation of independent developers to supply libraries. The feature you are proposing is solved easily in userland (just like named parameters). Its is a feature I could see using in a heavy lifting language, but not in a glue language. Where do we draw the line? Somewhere relatively arbitrary, but my gut tells me that this is a good candidate to be on "lets leave it out of php" side of the line.
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