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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:43 AM, desfrenes <desfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > oh... > > "You must prepend '\' before global names (global class names, > function names etc." > > Wrong, global functions names don't need this. But then that makes it > another exception ;-) > > On 27 jan, 13:09, Beerc <berces.las...@fomi.hu> wrote: > > Don't mock the humpbacked, please :). > > > > The correct syntax is Windows-like, to ease the work of the PHP > > interpreter: > > namespaces\that\look\like\paths > > > > Quote: "Of course, it would be great if PHP used a ‘.’ period for > > public methods, static methods, and namespaces. That would make it > > consistent with Java, C#, JavaScript, Python and many other languages. > > Unfortunately, PHP’s history and backwards compatibility makes that > > difficult to achieve." > > > > According to PHP traditions, there are many exceptions in teh usage: > > * Nested namespaces aren't allowed. > > * Neither functions nor constants can be imported via the use > > statement, use statements affects only namespaces and class names. > > * You must prepend '\' before global names (global class names, > > function names etc.). > > * If you want to define a constant in a namespace, you will need to > > specify the namespace in your call to define(), but class and function > > names inside namespace are automatically prefixed with the namespace > > name. > > * The namespace declaration statement must be the very first statement > > in the file. > > > > According to PHP traditions, there are some performance hits in teh > > usage: > > * Inside namespaces, calls to unqualified functions are resolved at > > run-time. > > * Inside namespaces, calls to unqualified or qualified class names > > (not _fully_ qualified class names) are resolved at run-time. > > * Calls to internal functions in namespaces are slower, because PHP > > first looks for such function in the current namespace. > > * Calls to static methods are slower, because PHP first tries to look > > for corresponding function in namespace. > > > > On Jan 26, 4:57 pm, pistacchio <pistacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > you are right, desfrenes, it has namespace (indeed, it has gained > > > namespaces only lately), but, talking about elegance, adding > > > namespaces/that/look/like/paths is not what i consider a "wow" design > > > decision :) > > > > > On Jan 26, 1:49 pm, desfrenes <desfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > You're right, Python is (much more) elegant. But you're wrong, PHP > has > > > > namespaces. > > > > > > On 25 jan, 18:27, pistacchio <pistacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > python is a very elegant and mature language. php has gained a huge > > > > > popularity more for the moment when it came out that for the > goodness > > > > > of the language itself. it has a broken object system, no > namespaces > > > > > and so on. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<web2py%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
