On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:56:59 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Gustavo Lopes
<[email protected]> wrote:
We currently don't use namespaces in any of the core extensions.
Does anything prevent us from starting to do so?
other symbols in ext/intl are in the global namespace; to put
BreakIterator
in a new namespace would be inconsistent -- and to put the whole
extension
would be a huge BC break.
It sure would be a bit inconcistent, but if you see it as "All new
Intl classes will go into the Intl namespace" it makes perfect sense
in my eyes.
You say that it makes perfect sense, but you don't explain why.
Also, at least in theory, one could alias all intl classes to
namespaced variants
(though I'm not sure that's really necessary.)
Yes, that would be the only sane way to do it, but I really don't see a
benefit large enough to compensate having a different treatment for
classes depending on some arbitrary line like when they were added. The
only real benefit of namespaces is to avoid name collisions, but most
new projects use namespaces and we can easily avoid name collisions in
the PHP core.
Plus, remember ext/intl is maintained in PECL too, where it supports
PHP 5.2.
Anyway, this is getting a bit off-topic.
--
Gustavo Lopes
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