thanks for the heads up, I didn't remembered that thread :( btw. didn't we had some parser improvement patch laying around for a while now?
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickalla...@php.net> wrote: > 2011/10/8 Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com>: >> Hi >> >> https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54/vote >> I've just noticed that the php namespace and the primitive types >> (string, bool, int) are still not reserved. >> the primitive types didn't had the 66% of the votes, but the php >> namespace did, so at least that should have been reserved in 5.4 >> already. >> what is the status about that? > > As far as I remember the thread about that, we concluded that while it > may be ok to make them reserved words in the global namespace, it is > absolutely not reasonable to make them reserved in a way it would > prevent creating namespaced classes like: \Company\Types\Int, > \Company\Types\String. > Namespaces being created, among other reasons, to avoid name > collisions, it would be unacceptable to have that BC break for people > having take care of namespacing that kind of classes. > And since the parser is too dumb for now, we just can't make it (cfr > your own mail in that thread). > > The votes made on that topic where mostly done by people who obviously > haven't take care of the technical limitations nor having followed the > BC problems it generates. > That topic shouldn't have been voted at all. > > Ref: http://marc.info/?t=131031633300001 > > Cheers, > Patrick > -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
