Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20460 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50258 invoked by uid 1010); 25 Nov 2005 22:24:45 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50240 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2005 22:24:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2005 22:24:45 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.12.155.130 69-12-155-130.dsl.static.sonic.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([69.12.155.130:2799] helo=pigeon.alphaweb.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 14/01-56276-C2F87834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:24:45 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=stumpy) by pigeon.alphaweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 1EflCo-00022D-00 for internals@lists.php.net; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:34:07 -0800 Message-ID: <013901c5f20f$631a5af0$7d051fac@stumpy> To: 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> <438782C6.80008@gmail.com> <43878626.5060300@lerdorf.com> <512771162.20051125225926@marcus-boerger.de> <43878C41.4030205@gmail.com> <43878D08.4020105@lerdorf.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:26:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon") >> 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. > It's also a conversation that was had before PHP5.0 was ever released (when namespaces were first being attempted). Anyone remember the term "syntactic sugar"?