Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20466 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39280 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 00:32:18 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39264 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 00:32:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 00:32:18 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.17.140.42 ftcl002.digis.net Received: from ([66.17.140.42:2250] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id CD/1E-56276-21DA7834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:32:18 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:32:14 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 66.17.140.42 Subject: solution to the "Date" issue From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver) Hi, I would like to propose these simple steps be taken: 1) rename "date" to "PHP_Date" 2) reserve the "PHP_" prefix for all future core classes in PHP 5 (if any) 3) when namespaces become available, reserve "PHP" for all future internal classes Greg