Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:110902 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 78589 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2020 18:22:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp4.php.net) (45.112.84.5) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2020 18:22:57 -0000 Received: from php-smtp4.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E968E180510 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:14:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp4.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Envelope-From: Received: from xdebug.org (xdebug.org [82.113.146.227]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F068010C06B; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 18:14:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 18:14:09 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@singlemalt.home.derickrethans.nl To: Rowan Tommins cc: php internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <0771c3ac-53ec-4a7f-a4e9-6ae3c9b1f1f6@www.fastmail.com> <49fd7972-8cec-4207-99af-6c77c2328211@www.fastmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.23 (DEB 453 2020-06-18) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] \PHP namespace usage heuristics From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Thu, 9 Jul 2020, Rowan Tommins wrote: > And yet we have repeatedly had discussions about whether this or that > feature should or shouldn't be prefixed with a namespace. If you think > the correct answer to "when should we use the PHP\ prefix?" is > "never", I urge you to put forward an RFC making that the policy. That is already the policy: https://www.php.net/manual/en/userlandnaming.rules.php Specifically "PHP owns the top-level namespace but tries to find decent descriptive names and avoid any obvious clashes" cheers, Derick