On 7/16/07, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@[...].com>  wrote:
>  > a) I was talking about namespace name "A_B" not class/function name.
> 
>  _ is legal identifier character, so it would not be a good idea to use
>  it as a separator. :: on the other side is natural scope separator in
>  many languages. But I'm rather reluctant to start the "my separator is
>  better than yours" thread for the 42th time :)

Me neither :-) :: is perfectly good for me. I just missed the point of
having it more
then once if it's only purpose is to separate default short name part
from whole
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?
> 
>  Not exactly. It does import, but not names just one name - the very same
>  name it has as an argument. The :: is used to join components of the
>  name. Note that you can also do:
> 
>  import Foo::XML as myXML;
>  $a = new myXML::Data::Document();

Now that explains a lot :-) If I get it right I can have namespaces
A::B::C and A::B::D
then create an alias for A::B with "import A::B" and use B::C::foo()
and B::D::foo() in
that file. Thats nice. Looks like namespace nesting though it isn't :-)


Regards,
Giedrius

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