On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Gregory Beaver wrote:
> >
> >> The user is obviously intentionally creating a "DateTime" class, and
> >> doesn't care about the internal classname in this script.
> >>
> >> The attached patch against PHP_5_3 would fix the issue by eliminating
> >> the check for conflict with CG(class_table) in the global namespace for
> >> internal classes.  It however preserves this check for userspace classes
> >> so that (for instance) php-src/tests/Zend/ns_030.phpt does not fail.
> >> The basic idea is that we do have control over the userspace classes we
> >> include, but have no control over the internal classes.
> >
> > I am not so sure this is a good idea. I mean, for the developer that
> > writes the code it's obvious that his version of DateTime is used. But
> > for a second developer to come back later this could be a great WTF
> > factor a few years down the road - wondering why the DateTime
> > documentation on php.net doesn't match with what the class does.
> 
> it won't be a serious 'wtf', as on the top of the file, there would be
> some kind of
> use MySuperLibrary::DateTime;

I know, but 400 lines down in the code you can't really see that. This 
addition might fix the immediate issue - but it doesn't make life easier 
for the developers that have to maintain the code. Even less if they're 
not aware that stuff is namespaced.

regards,
Derick

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