Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport

2007-07-31 Thread David Duong
"internals-newb" answer. AFAIK namespaces was a feature originally planned for PHP 5. I believe the most important long term advantage is simply that projects using PHP 5 do not have to wait approx. 10 years (pure guestimation) until PHP 6 is widely supported to be able to begin to use namespac

Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport

2007-07-23 Thread Larry Garfield
OK... internals-newb question. Doesn't backporting everything from 6.x to 5.x except Unicode automatically undermine PHP 6 adoption? If PHP 5.5 ends up being practically identical to PHP 6 unicode=off because everything has been backported... what's the incentive for PHP 6 unicode=off to even

RE: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport

2007-07-23 Thread Jani Taskinen
Exactly, it will go to 5.3 of course. --Jani On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:06 +0400, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > There is no way to put this patch into 5.2. > > Dmitry. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Timm Friebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:58 PM > > To: PHPd

RE: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport

2007-07-23 Thread Dmitry Stogov
There is no way to put this patch into 5.2. Dmitry. > -Original Message- > From: Timm Friebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:58 PM > To: PHPdev > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport > > > Hi, > I've backported the namespaces patch to current CVS HEA