I love this. Let's ship it.

-Andrei


On Jul 5, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

>  I think the following example is much better, however I am not sure  
>  it's a
>  right direction. Namespaces are intended to declare names that can  
>  conflict
>  with names from other namespaces (including global namespace), do I  
>  am not
>  sure that we need special keyword for internal functions.
> 
>  We'll think little bit more. Anyway thank you for feedback and idea.
> 
>  <?php
>  namespace UTF8;
> 
>  overloaded class Exception {
>  }
> 
>  overloaded function strlen() {
>  }
>  ?>
> 
>  Thanks. Dmitry.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: david.coallier@[...].com
> > [mailto:david.coallier@[...].com] On Behalf Of David Coallier
> > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:35 PM
> > To: Stefan Priebsch
> > Cc: Dmitry Stogov; PHP internals
> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal
> >
> >
> > On 7/5/07, Stefan Priebsch <stefan.priebsch@[...].de> wrote:
> >> David Coallier schrieb:
> >>> I would probably be in favor of throwing a notice or a
> > warning when
> >>> someone modifies a built-in function (or even throw an exception)
> >>> and that way as soon as you do such thing you would know
> > right away
> >>> that you modified something and you would know where the
> >>> modification happened which would make things much easier
> > for people
> >>> developing and debugging applications.
> >>
> >> The problem is that this kind of overloading makes a nice
> > feature as
> >> well. This is runied by throwing an exception, and cautious
> > developers
> >> will at least get nervous when they see a notice.
> >>
> >> I could imagine that by adding something like "overrides foo()" or
> >> "overloads foo()" to a function/method declaration the
> > developer could
> >> make clear that he willingly overrides a built-in function, and if
> >> this is missing, an exception is being thrown. This may be a little
> >> over the top, however.
> >>
> >
> > Yep I see what you mean.. could even be something like:
> >
> > namespace UTF8;
> >
> > overrides {
> >     strlen();
> >     strcmp();
> > }
> >
> > function strlen($string)
> > {
> >     return strlen($string) + 666; // This is just an example ! } ...
> >
> >
> > I kinda like the overrides part, however I wonder if people
> > will actually use it.. Oh well.. my two cents are now gone.
> >
> >
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Stefan
> >>
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> >
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