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Namespaces, decisions, wasting time

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As allow of you will have read a namespace separator for PHP was chosen. The discussions lasted more than 3 years and yes, we know most of the reasons why the chosen one is bad and §%§$&"& is way better before wasting your and our times by writing to mailing lists please read the archives. 90% of the proposals fail for simple technical reasons, 10% might technically work but have other problems which were considered. So: Decision made, let's go on and let's make sure the developer's list is there for doing productive stuff, 5.3 is delayed enough.

Thank you!

Posted by Johannes Schlüter in PHP Comments: (5) Trackbacks: (0)
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Dougal said,

Monday, October 27. 2008 at 20:41 (Reply)

.... yawn.
Kumar McMillan said,

Monday, October 27. 2008 at 21:36 (Link) (Reply)

A shame that functions cannot be defined within a namespace. Seems to me like that's the biggest use case for needing namespaces since classes are already namespaces themselves (although the old PEAR style class names was a joke).
Lukas said,

Monday, October 27. 2008 at 22:47 (Link) (Reply)

Functions and constants are supported.
Variables might eventually also be supported.
Kumar McMillan said,

Monday, October 27. 2008 at 23:58 (Link) (Reply)

I haven't been following closely but I thought there was ambiguity between SomeClass::staticmethod and SomeNameSpace::somefunction if the names were the same. Glad to hear they solved it!
Lukas said,

Tuesday, October 28. 2008 at 00:20 (Link) (Reply)

Thats the reason why the new namespace separator is \ and not :: anymore.

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