PHP Namespace Support Syntax Change

[joebert]

October 26th, 2008, 12:13 pm

If you've been following the development of PHP namespace support, you're probably familiar with the double-colon syntax already being used to access to access static members of a class. Well, they're changing it.

It seems rather than stick with consistency & keep the double-colon syntax which people are already using for faux namespace support through static methods, PHP developers have decided to make a trip out into left field and use a baclskash instead.

http://wiki.php.net/_media/rfc/php.ns.t ... ache=cache
http://news.php.net/php.internals/41374

I don't like it. Backslashes are for character escape sequences.

October 26th, 2008, 4:09 pm

Thanks for the info.

They need something different, besides double colon and backslash.

October 26th, 2008, 6:25 pm

Ugh, counter-intuitive again! It's about time someone took the good parts of the language and start something new.

October 30th, 2008, 4:26 am

I love the idea. But why declare it once at the top of the file? Why not use curly-braces to put them anywhere?

[joebert]

October 30th, 2008, 10:35 am

Because that wouldn't be as exciting OS.

I read once that "People love PHP so much because it was written by a rodeo clown on acid.", which makes be chuckle now and then.