How about "import" statements? The had effect on current file. How they will behave with your patch? The import in one namespace will affect following namespaces... :)
Also this change is inconsistent with renaming "namespace" to "package". Thanks. Dmitry. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Beaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 11:57 PM > To: internals Mailing List; Dmitry Stogov; Stanislav Malyshev > Subject: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] allowing multiple namespaces per > file plus namespaces with brackets > > > Hi all, > > This patch is also available at > http://pear.php.net/~greg/namespace.patch.txt > > The patch adds the syntax "namespace { *stuff }" and allows > multiple namespaces per file with no performance penalty or > added complexity as only 4 lines of code need to be changed, > and 9 lines of code added to implement this support! > > Basically, there is one use case of multiple namespaces per > file that the patch is designed to support, which is the > ability to cram many files into a single file. I have done > this for purposes of distributing things (prior to phar), it > is used by some with phing tasks for performance reasons, and > can have other uses as well. > > The patch provides the ability to do this, for example: > > <?php > namespace One { > require_once 'blah.php'; > class MyClass extends blah > { > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > > namespace Two { > class MyClass > { > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > function test() > { > echo "OK\n"; > } > } > ?> > > Note that the old format "namespace OneRingToRuleThemAll;" is > still fully supported, and should be the recommended format, > as build tools can easily take an entire file, change > namespace .*; into namespace .*{ and append <?php } ?> to the > end of the file. > > The attached patch is against php6, but as you can see, a > blind monkey could port it to PHP_5_3 when the time comes. > All of the introduced changes are now tested, including the > error message for nested namespace declarations, and the > error message for multiple namespace declarations with ; > (which was previously untested by .phpt tests) > > Thanks, > Greg > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
