I'm -1 for "removing constants and functions from the namespaces". As I
wrote already in another thread, is it possible to have a fatal error thrown
when the engine detects an ambiguity situation? Are there any logical (i
mean from OOP point of view) or internals (performance and so on) problems
with this solution? In my opinion is better than dropping funcs & consts.
Vesselin Kenashkov
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On the ZendCon, we (Marcus, Elizabeth, Andi and myself) had a talk about
> what we'd like to do with namespaces, and we arrived at the following
> conclusions, which we propose to implement in 5.3:
>
> 1. Allow braces for namespaces. So, the syntax for namespaces will be:
> a) namespace foo;
> should be first (non-comment) statement in the file, namespace extends to
> the end of the file or next namespace declaration.
> b) namespace foo {}
> can appear anywhere on the top scope (can not be nested).
> Mixing both syntaxes in one file is not possible. The semantics of both
> syntaxes will be identical.
>
> 2. Simplify resolution order for classes in the namespace: unqualified
> names are resolved this way:
> a) check "use" list if the name was defined at "use", follow that
> resolution
> b) if not, the name resolves to namespace::name
> Consequence of this will be that for using internal class inside namespace
> one would need to refer to it either as ::Foo or do use ::Foo prior to its
> usage.
>
> 3. Functions will not be allowed inside namespaces. We arrived to
> conclusion that they are much more trouble than they're worth, and summarily
> we would be better off without them. Most of the functionality could be
> easily achieved using static class methods, and the rest may be emulated
> with variable function names, etc.
>
> Comments?
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