"internals-newb" answer. AFAIK namespaces was a feature originally
planned for PHP 5. I believe the most important long term advantage is
simply that projects using PHP 5 do not have to wait approx. 10 years
(pure guestimation) until PHP 6 is widely supported to be able to begin
to use namespaces.
Larry Garfield wrote:
OK... internals-newb question. Doesn't backporting everything from 6.x to 5.x
except Unicode automatically undermine PHP 6 adoption? If PHP 5.5 ends up
being practically identical to PHP 6 unicode=off because everything has been
backported... what's the incentive for PHP 6 unicode=off to even exist?
Except of course for very subtle differences that didn't get backported so
5.5 is *almost* PHP 6 unicode=off, so no one even deals with PHP 6
unicode=off except for those projects that actively try to run on everything
they can for mass-market compatibility.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to use namespaces earlier. I'm
confused as to what the long-term advantage is here.
On Monday 23 July 2007, Jani Taskinen wrote:
Exactly, it will go to 5.3 of course.
--Jani
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:06 +0400, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
There is no way to put this patch into 5.2.
Dmitry.
-----Original Message-----
From: Timm Friebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:58 PM
To: PHPdev
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport
Hi,
I've backported the namespaces patch to current CVS HEAD. Here it is:
http://sitten-polizei.de/php/php5-namespaces.diff
I've tested it with the .phpt-tests Dmitry provided. Enjoy:)
- Timm
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