On 2011-07-10, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/10/11 9:41 AM, Patrick ALLAERT wrote:
> > Developer may have taken care of defining them in a specific
> > namespace, would it be possible to not break their application while
> > making them reserved keywords in the global namespace only?
>
> I don't think there's such thing in PHP as namespaced keywords. Keywords
> are processed by the language parser, which knows next to nothing of
> namespaces.
> We could, maybe, prohibit creation of classes with names identical to
> type names, which is different from making it reserved word, and on that
> stage we know the full class name.
I think that's a bad idea. The point of namespaces is to allow us to
override classes (and functions, and constants) within that namespace.
If I can't do this:
namespace Foo
{
class String
{
}
}
then I'd consider the implementation too restrictive.
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