Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20571 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35395 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 17:07:32 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35380 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 17:07:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 17:07:32 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.46.255.21 viefep18-int.chello.at Solaris 8 (1) Received: from ([213.46.255.21:12763] helo=viefep18-int.chello.at) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 9D/5F-56276-25698834 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:07:30 -0500 Received: from genuine ([80.108.128.16]) by viefep18-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20051126170725.INFS15626.viefep18-int.chello.at@genuine> for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:07:25 +0100 Received: from laptop.home ([192.168.1.50]) by genuine with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1Eg3Pc-0006zz-8Z for internals@lists.php.net; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:00:32 +0100 Message-ID: <4388967C.1030607@fischer.name> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:08:12 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Thunderbird/1.0.2 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net 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> <43879039.5070805@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43879039.5070805@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -27 X-Spam-Level: -- X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "genuine", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Jessie Hernandez wrote: > We have two options here: > > 1) Do not allow constants in namespaces, just stick to functions and > classes. > 2) Forget about this inconsistency. > > I understand your point of view, but it seems crazy to me to use "\", an > operator that makes absolutely no sense at all and will be confusing for > most users, just because of _one_ isolated case such as this. I > personally choose option 2, and I think the many users who are clamoring > for namespaces would agree also. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) From: markus@fischer.name (Markus Fischer) Jessie Hernandez wrote: > We have two options here: > > 1) Do not allow constants in namespaces, just stick to functions and > classes. > 2) Forget about this inconsistency. > > I understand your point of view, but it seems crazy to me to use "\", an > operator that makes absolutely no sense at all and will be confusing for > most users, just because of _one_ isolated case such as this. I > personally choose option 2, and I think the many users who are clamoring > for namespaces would agree also. From the users point of view I agree completely with option 2) here. sincerly, - Markus