I'm going to have to agree with Larry, here. If there's no *real* namespace implementation i
n PHP6, there may as well not be one at all. Take a look around at the countless other langu
ages that already have this functionality. You're gimping the language further if you implem
ent namespaces without such core functionality as this.

Regards,
Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Garfield [mailto:larry@[...].com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:13 PM
To: internals@[...].net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

Yes, it would be.  What's the problem with that?  

I'm coming from the background of a plugin-based architecture where plugins 
routinely add functions that would, conceptually, "exist" in a different 
namespace.  

That would require having both multiple namespaces per file and multiple files 
per namespace.  If we can't do that then we're back to using static classes 
as if they were namespaces.

On Sunday 08 July 2007, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
>  -1  for braces and multiple namespaces per file
> 
>  Braces will allow define something outside namespace and I like to avoid
>  this possibility.
>  In the following "correct" example function bar() is defined in global
>  namespace.
> 
>  <?php
>  namespace A::B {
> 
>    function foo() {
>    }
> 
>  }
> 
>  function bar() {
>  }
>  ?>
> 
>  Dmitry.
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: news [mailto:news@[...].org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Bergmann
>  > Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:13 AM
>  > To: internals@[...].net
>  > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal
>  >
>  > Nicolas Bérard-Nault schrieb:
>  > > +1 for braces around namespace definition.
>  >
>  >  -0 on that, because there is no clear "standard" with regard
>  > to how  other programming languages solve this.
>  >
>  >  Java does not require braces with its "package" construct
>  > [1] and C#  does for its "namespace" construct [2].
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  [1]
>  > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/packages.html
>  >  [2] http://www.jaggersoft.com/csharp_standard/8.12.htm
>  >
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