Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20507 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 99560 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 09:12:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 99544 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 09:12:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 09:12:54 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.237.234.121 mail.bauer-kirch.de Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([80.237.234.121:52675] helo=mail.bauer-kirch.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id A3/2F-56276-51728834 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:12:54 -0500 Received: (qmail 5155 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 09:12:50 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:12:56 +0100 To: Ron Korving Cc: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20051126091256.GA4647@trior.divbyzero.net> References: <00A2E2156BEE8446A81C8881AE117F192C1D08@companyweb> <1021295893.20051125211028@marcus-boerger.de> <20051126085039.GA1332@trior.divbyzero.net> <71.ED.56276.24328834@pb1.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <71.ED.56276.24328834@pb1.pair.com> User-Agent: Mutt (Cray UniCOS) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps outthere) From: mj@php.net (Martin Jansen) On Sat Nov 26, 2005 at 09:5522AM +0100, Ron Korving wrote: > > Speaking of this, I like Greg's suggestion about prefixing all internal > > classes with PHP_. While there are certainly classes out there that are > > prefixed with it, we could tell developers that starting with e.g. PHP 6 > > the PHP_* class scope is reserved for the language core and must not be > > used for any other purpose. > > Why would you, if you have namespaces? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression that despite Jessie's patch and Marcus' competence in all things C people are still unsure if namespaces will make it into PHP 6. Thus having an alternative strategy at hand seems wise. Best, - Martin