Apparently this is why :: was discarded: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/backslashnamespaces#use_as_namespace_separator
Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: Philip Arndt To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:32 AM Subject: [phpug] Re: Namespace Separators That's so stupid, why couldn't they just use :: like loads of other languages? e.g. my::namespace::is:trouble reads fine! PS. loved your example Aaron ;-) On 28/10/2008, at 9:26 AM, Aaron Cooper wrote: Morning all I had the pleasure of reading my php feed this morning to find that most of the weekend chatter had been regarding the internals team selecting "\" as the new namespace separator on Saturday. http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator Not a single soul seems to be enjoying this news. In fact on a scale of things, PHP might be losing some fans soon. I've never seen so many fanboys admitting that (based on decisions like this) PHP is on a road to nowhere. Let me get this straight: Does all this mean that my\namespace\is\trouble is going to end up: my amespace\is rouble Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
