On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 05:49 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > >> * namespaces : we did not see a good use case for them >> > > It's useful for extensions. That way, an extension doesn't have to worry > about the names of core classes, or future extensions, and it doesn't have > to have prefixes in the class name itself. Is there a difference between Extension\ClassName and Extension_ClassName, collision-wise? i.e. if two extensions both use "Extension" as a namespace and define "ClassName", what happens? Namespaces do have opportunity to allow for shortened references within the extension. Although potentially with confusion, particularly if the shortened reference is hiding a "global" class of the same name (e.g. aliasing Extension\User to User). The status quo has the advantage of not looking weird with backslashes ;) -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
