Hi all,
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Dominic Grostate
> <codekest...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Has there been any discussion or consideration towards migrating or at
> > least aliasing all built in classes to a Php vendor namespace?
> >
> Not any that's led to a consensus.
>
> Personally, I like the idea of moving EVERYTHING to PHP\ at once and
> building in an automatic fallback, so an app could do:
>
> <?php
> $dt = new DateTime(...); // uses builtin DataTime via fallback to PHP
> namespace
>
> Or:
>
> <?php
> class DateTime { ... }
> $mydt = new DateTime(...); // Uses user supplied DateTime
> $pdt = new PHP\DateTime(...); // Uses builtin DateTime
>
It's acceptable option, but I prefer explicit declaration for clean root
namespace.
>
> Possibly paired with the ability to import a NS to root:
>
> <?php
> use PHP as \;
> $pdt = new DateTime(...); // Uses builtin DateTime from root namespace
+1 for "as \"
It achieves both clean namespace and compatibility at the same time.
It opens door for easier API version up also. Automatic fallback disturbs
this.
Regards,
--
Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net
