Surely even / would have been better than \. --------------------------------------------------- Keri Henare
[e] [email protected] [m] 021 874 552 [w] www.kerihenare.com On 2/07/2009, at 11:29 AM, Neven MacEwan wrote: > > Mark > > If it becomes a huge issue then it will be 'fixed' it wouldn't be the > first time a certain php language feature was 'improved' > > The great thing with open source, you don't get 'stuck' with > politically > driven bad decisions, if it is truly bd it wil be fixed > > Neven > > >> Yes, it's a shame that they didn't listen more to the users on this >> issue. >> >> I never really cared much for their explanation of the problem. It's >> like they could see the trade-off: pissing off millions of beginner >> developers and experienced PHP users VS fixing a very obscure >> ambiguity issue with static functions that would only arise as the >> result of poor package design. Choosing the privelege the latter was >> the wrong choice in my opinion, and shows that these people have a >> profound lack of insight. >> >> People everywhere said they wanted the p1::p2 syntax for namespaces, >> but would also be ok if they had to use p1:::p2. They should have >> listened. Time will tell, how costly this mistake is going to be for >> PHP. >> >> >> >> Grüße, >> >> Mark Rickerby >> http://maetl.net/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Cell. +642102785644 | Email. [email protected] >> PO Box 4452, Shortland Street, Auckland 1140, NZ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
