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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:38:57 +0200
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To: Jakob Givoni <jakob@givoni.dk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Treat namespaced names as single token, relax
 reserved keyword restrictions
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:06 AM Jakob Givoni <jakob@givoni.dk> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:52 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi internals,
> >
> > Inspired by the recent discussion on reserved keyword reservation, I'd
> like
> > to propose the following RFC:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token
> >
> > This RFC makes two related changes: Treat namespaced names as a single
> > token, which enables use of reserved keywords inside them. And remove
> > reserved keyword restrictions from various declarations.
> >
> > The RFC comes with a small backwards compatibility break related to names
> > that include whitespace, but will hopefully reduce the backwards
> > compatibility impact of future reserved keyword additions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nikita
>
> Love it, thanks Nikita!
>
> In a mail that probably went to everyone's spam folder, I asked for
> opinions on allowing use of .\Foo as an alternative to Foo in the
> current namespace, thus reducing friction with reserved keywords even
> more. Any thoughts on that now?
>

How would .\Foo be different from the currently existing namespace\Foo?
(Note that "namespace" here is to be taken literally, not as "put the
current namespace here").

Nikita

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