So, you decided to jump in to criticize a design decision that went in after several months of discussion, without any insight into why it was done the way it was?
On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Sylvain Rabot wrote: > Hi, > > The comment I'm about to make is behind the times, and, now, useless, I > know, but I can't hold me. > > You chose for the namespace feature, a great feature besides, the > backslash ?? really ?? Come on guys, among all the possibilities, you > have chosen, according to me, the most hideous character possible. > > Having Windows©®™ path like strings in the middle of source code is not > something that is going to make me use the feature. > > PHP syntax was simple, clean. To me, the backslash token ruins > everything. Using it aside from escaping was something I have never > considered, have you ? Do you like it ? > > The goal of backslash was maybe to highlight namespace in the source > code, if it was, congrats, we only see that now. > To my opinion it breaks all esthetic's balance of a source code. > > No need to respond that I should have contribute to the choice, believe > me, if I could have, I would have. > > This was just the comment of a simple guy which is very concerned about > source code esthetic's and believes that a neat, well balanced code is > more likely to be well maintained that any other one. > > Best regards. > > -- > Sylvain Rabot <sylv...@abstraction.fr> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
