Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Thomas Lee
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 pref

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Thomas Lee
x27;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 shelv

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Thomas Lee
Steph Fox wrote: Hi Thomas, Anyway, my point is that there may be other options. Such as putting off a long-sought feature until it can be implemented properly. OK, since you obviously didn't do any background reading before posting to this list, let me direct you to the history behind this

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE:

2008-10-27 Thread Thomas Lee
David Grudl wrote: But what is the purpose of namespaces? To give developers their own separated space. And it is their responsibility to not use ambiguous names. PHP has not problem with class Foo::Bar and namespace Foo::Bar, but coding standards usually prohibits it. +1 to that. Cheers,