This was argued for months, there was tons of emails to read and backslash is best for most people. PHP is dynamic language - that makes some major restrictions, so you just can't apply something that is already in use easily. That's why :: was rejected in first place. That's why . was rejected, other separators had other issues. Backslash is easy to see, easy to type (most layouts have it without Shift or something else) and clearly says - I'm a namespace! So anyway - in any language you will find something that you would't like. You just live with that or chouse another language. That's all.
2008/10/27 Thomas Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lester Caine wrote: > >> The backslash is not ideal, but I think we all need to get behind it >> rather than complaining. The only other real alternative today is to shelve >> namespaces altogether for the next release rather than putting something in >> that is simply not practical to extend later? >> > I'd prefer to see it shelved for another release with the aim of fixing > whatever technical barriers made the syntax unworkable in the first place. > I'm sure you'd have plenty of volunteers. > > My personal concern is that once this goes public, we (the end users) are > stuck with that decision for the forseeable future. > > I think there's obviously enough unhappy campers here that this option > should be at least considered. Not that I'm holding my breath or anything. > > Everybody seems to be getting awfully emotional about this ... > > Cheers, > > T > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
