On 7/16/07, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@[...].com>  wrote:
>  > The other thing that bothers me is namespaces nesting. It was said
>  > that namespaces
>  > nesting is not supported. Then I'm missing a point in having namespace
>  > named "A::B".
> 
>  The same reason some people write $a = f($z, $t) and some write
>  $parsed_template = template_parser($template, $data_values) :)
> 
I wasn't talking about a short/long names :-)
I was talking about a separator inside a namespace name.

>  > Lets say I have three files:
>  >
>  > a.php:
>  > <?php
>  > namespace A;
>  >
>  > function foo()
>  > {
>  > }
>  > ?>
>  >
>  > b.php:
>  > <?php
>  > namespace A::B;
>  >
>  > function bar()
>  > {
>  >    //foo();
>  > }
>  > ?>
>  >
>  > index.php:
>  > <?php
>  > require 'a.php';
>  > require 'b.php';
>  >
>  > import A;
>  > foo(); // should call A::foo(), right?
>  > B::bar(); // will this call A::B::bar()?
>  > ?>
> 
>  import A is a no-op. You do import A::B and then you can do B::bar.
>  import N means "something that is named N can now be referred only by
>  it's 'last name' last(N), last name being last segment of the long
>  name". If you have short names, you don't need namespaces, but if you
>  have names like PEAR::DB::Record::Type::Modifier::Exception, you
>  probably do :)
> 
>  > Now if this does not work then whats the point in having namespace
>  > "A::B" instead of "A_B"? IMHO this brings more confusion then
>  > clearness.
> 
>  The point is you can a) omit namespace prefix inside namespace and b)
>  use just B (or C if you wish) instead of A::B outside, once you did
>  import. As I said, with long names it makes sense, with short ones you
>  are OK without it.
a) I was talking about namespace name "A_B" not class/function name.
b) So as far as I understand "import" doesn't actually *import* names
from specified
namespace to the current one but just renames long namespace name to a
shorter one. And if I get it right the separator in the namespace name
is allowed
and required only to express default name when importing without "as".
Am I right?


Regards,
Giedrius

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