2008/10/14 Steph Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Only 8 hours ago, one Jean-Phillipe Serafin wrote: "Many people have > starting working on top level application using namespaces, so there will a > very bad buzz over the php community if namespaces are ripped out..." and > there were further objections on the grounds that namespace support has been > 'announced' on php.net.
I'd like to point out that those people started working with namespaces *before* the idea of dropping them (or postponing them to PHP 6) appeared on the list. I doubt those people would have done the same if they had been told that namespaces may very well not be available until PHP 6. Namespace support in 5.3 received quite a lot of coverage this year through blogs, articles and presentations, that's why some people started implementing them or prepared to migrate their codebase. Now if they're told it's postponed indefinitely (until PHP 6 gets a tentative schedule) they'll feel burned and they'll think twice before investing any time in testing new features in future releases. I think that's what Stas meant, people would not take the risk to implement such extensive changes without the assurance that namespace will be available. Those who already did were pretty sure that 5.3 would have namespaces. JD -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
