Federico Lebron wrote:
Tony Bibbs wrote:
I disagree here...it is both wanted and and needed. This feature has
been promised to the community for quite some time now and I'd simply
remind you you do have the option of *not* using namespaces if you
don't want too. If you like REALLY_LONG_CLASS_NAMES that's still
perfectly valid. Don't like it, don't use it but I think working
through the remaining issues and getting it out is important. Making
right decision on the approach is important too and from an outsiders
point of view a lot of progress has been made and it now seems very,
very close to being a reality. Ditching it should be the last thing
considered.
I can't say it enough, if you don't like where the namespace
implementation ends up you can simply decide not to use it.
--Tony
As far as I know, that argument doesn't really fly here, since you might
not use it, but in a large PHP project, someone in your team will. "If
you don't like it, don't use it" doesn't hold since you still have to
understand, and possibly modify, your teammate's code. A similar point
was raised, IIRC, for the [1,2] short-array notation.
This is particularly important because large codebases, usually with
several people touching the code, are the primary target for namespaces,
as opposed to short one-person form-processing scripts,.
In addition one of the main reasons FOR namespace is to make libraries easier
to manage, so if our own code does not use them it's likely that some library
we select will - at some point. Hence my comments previously about having to
take more care keeping things like namespace under control when deploying
applications which may not have 5.3 available to run on. BC up to now has been
relatively easy to maintain, but I have a feeling that 5.3 SHOULD be a major
version number change so that we can maintain PHP5 compatibility easier?
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