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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Rasmus,

Friday, November 25, 2005, 11:15:36 PM, you wrote:

> Jessie Hernandez wrote:
>> Hi Marcus,
>> 
>> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>> Hello Jessie,
>>>
>>>   that's only one case,go with consts. now try
>>> $x = $y ? foo:bar:baz:stupid;
>>>
>>> now what?
>>>
>>> best regards
>>> marcus
>>>
>> 
>> Here it'll fail. My patch is basically allowing colons inside the 
>> class/function/constant name, so whitespace here is _crucial_, i.e., the 
>> following example WOULD work:
 >>
>> $x = $y ? foo:bar : baz:stupid;

> Forcing whitespace here isn't an option.  It is completely inconsistent 
> with the rest of PHP.

And it is the main reason we dropped namespaces last time.

Best regards,
 Marcus