An initial \ is only necessary if you add a namespace to the top of the
file.
Changing a class to use a namespace also completely changes it's class
name and breaks all code depending on that class, namely extensions. And
there is absolutely no good reason to add a namespace to existing code
strong enough to outweigh the fact that we'll be breaking extensions.
So I see absolutely no reason to go adding \ into files.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:28 -0700, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote:
We probably should consider prefixing TLD classes (like SPL Iterators
and such) with a \ just to be compatible with namespacing down the road.
On May 17, 2012, at 3:13 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
On 17 May 2012 01:36, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey,
I am not aware of any guidelines regarding the usage of PHP namespaces
in
MediaWiki and di not find any on MediaWiki.org. Not surprising since
1.20
is the first release in which we can actually use it. So I'm curious on
peoples thoughts on how to use this new features, if at all, in core
and in
extensions. As far as I get it, we cannot simply put it into core
without
breaking compat all over he place, but could gradually introduce it
for new
components. For new extensions it's a lot easier of course, which
happens
to be the use case I'm currently facing, and wondering what to best do.
MediaWiki\ExtensionName seems like a reasonable NS for extension
classes.
I just came across to a reference to PSR-0 while researching another
unrelated thing.
Little bit of googling gives this: https://gist.github.com/1234504
Seems to be somewhat relevant to this discussion, although pretty much
incompatible with what we do in MediaWiki currently.
-Niklas
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Niklas Laxström
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