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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.1.0RC2
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Marcus Boerger schrieb:
> 
>>honestly why do you want to prefix iterators? and secondly i'd be 
>>just plain stupid to prefix the exception classes.
> 
> 
>  Bugger, I forgot that those two (iterators and exceptions) are part of
>  SPL for a second. They're so essential, IMHO, that I thought them part
>  of the core somehow :)

AFAIK Marcus spend quite a considerable time during the conf to add 
prefixes or some other namespacing steps to all global symbols during 
the php|works conferences except for Iterators and Exceptions.

I think for Iterators and Exceptions they are sort of postfix 
namespaced. I think we should just come up with a "userland global 
symbol naming guideline" in the manual where we give users a guideline 
on the kinds of things php may expand to in the global symbol table in 
the future and what sort of userland naming policy we recommend to not 
run into trouble.

regards,
Lukas