On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2008, James Dempster wrote:
> > I would agree with you, I think namespaces should wait for a later
> version.
> > Maybe 6 or even later. I believe there are many problems that need to be
> > sorted be namespaces hit release.
> >
> > Maybe we could do something like so.
> >
> > namespace Fully::Qualified::Class::Name class Declaration extends
> Whatever
> > implents MyInterface { }
> >
> > I have reservations in using :: as a resolution operator which can easily
> > clash with normal class space usage.
> >
> > Is it too late to have these discussions?? It seems I missed the big
> > namespace discussions on the mailing list and things have already gone
> > ahead.
> >
> > /James
>
> Unfortunately it probably is. I recall someone did raise the
> ClassName::staticMethod() vs. Namespace::function() collision problem
> months
> ago, and the response at the time was "Pfft, like who uses classes and
> functions in the same project, anyway?"
>
> (Of course, the answer is "well I do" but I've long since learned that such
> answers don't carry much weight around here, so I mostly just read to see
> where the language is going rather than to influence it. So I've just
> resigned myself to not being able to use namespaces in PHP.)
>
It's things like this that make me worry about the future of PHP. The elite
few pushing out lots of developers. :(
If namespaces are going to be problematic then lets wait for version 6.
It would also give more time for namespaces to be thought out properly.
I feel that namespaces in it's current form is a half arsed attempt to force
something into the language.
>
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/James
