>It's a bit ironic that you underestimate PHP's devs with that sort of >assumption, don't you think?
I do not underestimate anyone. I just meant that those who will find class visibility "complex" may not use namespaces at all. But those who write a full OO code may want full OO features. Not OO things that have been made "easier" for them. Btw, I am not sure that a missing feature makes a scheme easier. >If you dig into this list's archives, you'll see that namespaces were >mentionned as a matter of interest as early as 2000(?) and if memory >serves, a previous round of patches in 2005 did include class >visibility (a side effect actually... IIRC). At least, I remember >super-long threads about it and it wasn't pretty. Please don't take my >word for it as I might remember some of it incorrectly. I am not saying that the people here have not thought about it. But the longer you wait, the more you're likely to run into implementation problems. And you know that it's always more efficient to implement the different aspects of a feature globally, than to add them one by one, as the requests arrive. Hence my reaction. Anyway, namespaces are coming. That's very good news, even in 2008. :) Franck -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
