Hi Stas, Am Montag, den 22.09.2008, 12:45 -0700 schrieb Stanislav Malyshev: [...] > On the ZendCon, we (Marcus, Elizabeth, Andi and myself) had a talk about > what we'd like to do with namespaces, and we arrived at the following > conclusions, which we propose to implement in 5.3:
Thanks for the effort.
> 1. Allow braces for namespaces. So, the syntax for namespaces will be:
> a) namespace foo;
> should be first (non-comment) statement in the file, namespace extends
> to the end of the file or next namespace declaration.
> b) namespace foo {}
> can appear anywhere on the top scope (can not be nested).
> Mixing both syntaxes in one file is not possible. The semantics of both
> syntaxes will be identical.
>
> 2. Simplify resolution order for classes in the namespace: unqualified
> names are resolved this way:
> a) check "use" list if the name was defined at "use", follow that resolution
> b) if not, the name resolves to namespace::name
> Consequence of this will be that for using internal class inside
> namespace one would need to refer to it either as ::Foo or do use ::Foo
> prior to its usage.
>
> 3. Functions will not be allowed inside namespaces. We arrived to
> conclusion that they are much more trouble than they're worth, and
> summarily we would be better off without them. Most of the functionality
> could be easily achieved using static class methods, and the rest may be
> emulated with variable function names, etc.
+1
cu, Lars
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