Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20470 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49497 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 00:52:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49481 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 00:52:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 00:52:33 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.92.170.15 ip2.tossell.net Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([66.92.170.15:36278] helo=mx.tossell.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id B4/9F-56276-0D1B7834 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:52:32 -0500 Received: by mx.tossell.net (Postfix, from userid 1019) id 93D0E1D64C8; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:52:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.123] (odysseus.tossell.net [192.168.0.123]) by mx.tossell.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C24C11ED25; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:52:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4387B552.8000806@php.net> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:07:30 -0500 Reply-To: kennyt@php.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050629) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Beaver Cc: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on minerva.tossell.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] solution to the "Date" issue From: kennyt@php.net (Ken Tossell) Not to start a flame war, but... How about STD, Std, or something similar? It certainly works for... that language... that has multiple implementations of the standard classes. It can't hurt to play to people's comfort when the change doesn't really affect PHP in any major way. :) But yes, a standard class prefix (to be migrated to a namespace) sounds more practical than either asking everyone to use prefixes or hoping that the minimal user base is affected by a conflict. And getting everyone into a habit of importing standard php classes -- class Date extends PHP_Date {} -- might help in the future. :D Ken