Newsgroups: php.internals,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20446 php.internals:20447 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12136 invoked by uid 1010); 25 Nov 2005 21:31:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12121 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2005 21:31:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2005 21:31:53 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 65.9.87.49 adsl-9-87-49.mia.bellsouth.net Received: from ([65.9.87.49:11740] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id BF/7B-56276-9C287834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:31:53 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net,Marcus Boerger Message-ID: <438782C6.80008@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:31:50 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <7.0.0.16.2.20051124161240.0573e640@zend.com> <90.0E.56276.6D207834@pb1.pair.com> <200511251419.56809.pookey@pookey.co.uk> <57.B8.56276.65B27834@pb1.pair.com> <73998811.20051125204046@marcus-boerger.de> In-Reply-To: <73998811.20051125204046@marcus-boerger.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 65.9.87.49 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) From: jrhernandez05@gmail.com (Jessie Hernandez) Hello Marcus, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Guys it is sensless to discuss the namespace separator. The only possibility > is \ and that's not because anybody at some meeting liked it. It is the only > character that is freely available as in not conflicting with anything we > have right now and still available on keyboards. If anybody disagrees i > suggest you first come up with a patch for the lexer - thanks. > Why is "\" the only available character? Right now my patch is using ":" and it's working great (though against 5.1). Is ":" used in some other way in PHP 6? Regards, Jessie