In response to Larry Garfield's comment that "[t]here's nothing "familiar" about :: to 99.99% of PHP developers who haven't already been playing with the alphas" I'd like to point out that since PHP 5.1, the double colon is effectively used as a namespace operator by extensions, in the sense that extensions started using class constants instead of prefixed, global constants. e.g. PDO::PARAM_BOOL instead of PDO_PARAM_BOOL.
Usage of class constants (or static methods, for that matter) as a way to preserve the global namespace can also be seen in various projects written in PHP. Additionnally, I'd say there's some familiarity in considering that classes, functions and constants are static members of a namespace the same way that methods and constants can be static members of a class but that may be subject to interpretation. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
