On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Nikita Popov wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM Côme Chilliet <
> come.chill...@fusiondirectory.org> wrote:
> 
> > Le mercredi 29 avril 2020, 14:58:02 CEST Nikita Popov a écrit :
> > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:51 PM Côme Chilliet <
> > > come.chill...@fusiondirectory.org> wrote:
> > > > Le mardi 28 avril 2020, 18:59:22 CEST Benas IML a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > > Could you provide any examples as to where '\Attribute' is 
> > > > > being used in the wild? I haven't seen a single project that 
> > > > > has an Attribute class and uses the global namespace.
> > > >
> > > > We do use an Attribute class in FusionDirectory:
> > > > https://gitlab.fusiondirectory.org/fusiondirectory/fd/-/blob/1.4-dev/include/simpleplugin/class_Attribute.inc
> > > >
> > > > I’d expect a lot of projects to have an Attribute class, since 
> > > > there are things named attributes in lots of contexts.
> > >
> > > Great! You have discovered a nice opportunity to finally move your 
> > > code into the FusionDirectory namespace.
> > >
> > > PHP reserves (de facto if not de jure) the global namespace for 
> > > it's own purposes. If you want to place classes in the global 
> > > namespace, without prefixing them, that's fine, but please don't 
> > > complain if there are clashes.
> >
> > This is a bit harsh, I did not complain, I provided an example of 
> > project to someone who wrote «Could you provide any examples». I 
> > can, so I did.
> 
> Sorry for the snark!
> 
> To rephrase my mail in a more neutral fashion: I don't think we should 
> be taking potential naming clashes *in the global namespace* into 
> account at all, independently of whether we know that specific clashes 
> exist or not.

This is also documented already in the manual:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.rules.php

"PHP owns the top-level namespace but tries to find decent descriptive 
names and avoid any obvious clashes."

cheers,
Derick

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