Tudor Prodan wrote:
PHP has to be unique, using the double colon notation would be too
cliche, but if we're not respecting conventions, why not go with
something more exotic? I've always liked the o with the slash trough
it. The e with the horizontal colon is also pretty nice. The n with
the tilde over it, it so strongly says _n_amespace.
When I read this message first thing I did was check the date, but
deep down I knew it wasn't April yet.
One of the top reasons why I hate using windows consoles is the
dreaded "\" character.
Each and every keyboard model I have has this key in a different
place, sometimes one hard to reach. Every time I'm in doing a cd in
windows I press 2-3 other keys while going for the backslash.
That whole rating table over on the PHP wiki is just ridiculous.
- type-ability: come on. If anything, it should get -1 there
- typo-vulnerability: pretty big, but I think most problems will be
escaping rather than typos anyway
- number of chars: any sane person will agree that you can write
"::" a lot faster than "\"
- editor integration: not really, many editors will have trouble, including vim
I eagerly await namespaces in PHP, but guys, if you don't have a good
idea, I think copying is better than implementing a bad one.
Tudor - There is little point reiterating half of the facts. There are very
good reasons why - for PHP - a simple solution was not working. MANY people
were coming up with problems as to why the currently implemented 'solution'
was only going to create a black hole at some point, and what ever was doing
to be done was going to cause problems somewhere.
The backslash is not ideal, but I think we all need to get behind it rather
than complaining. The only other real alternative today is to shelve
namespaces altogether for the next release rather than putting something in
that is simply not practical to extend later?
Given the polarised views a total solution that everybody could agree with was
just not happening!
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