Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature proposal: userland support for name qualification

2010-08-06 Thread Ignas Rudaitis
Hi, well, my apologies for not making that clear enough. I suppose it wouldn't require any runtime information, as this kind of construct could be expanded at compile time. For example: willUse('LibraryWithAVeryLongName\Cache\FileCache') ->willUse('LibraryWithAVeryLongName\Routing\Cach

Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature proposal: userland support for name qualification

2010-08-05 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! unqualified aliases, it would be useful to extend this functionality to string references to these classes/functions/constants as well. It would require to carry "namespace context" around with every function/class in runtime and for me the usecase is not clear. Can you describe more in

Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature proposal: userland support for name qualification

2010-07-31 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Ignas Rudaitis wrote: > Hello php.internals, > > Here is a (hopefully) simple language feature I'd like to suggest: > > Now that PHP has support for namespaces and therefore makes it > possible to refer to classes, functions and constants by their shorter > unquali

[PHP-DEV] Feature proposal: userland support for name qualification

2010-07-31 Thread Ignas Rudaitis
Hello php.internals, Here is a (hopefully) simple language feature I'd like to suggest: Now that PHP has support for namespaces and therefore makes it possible to refer to classes, functions and constants by their shorter unqualified aliases, it would be useful to extend this functionality to str