Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20606 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34204 invoked by uid 1010); 26 Nov 2005 23:40:07 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34189 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2005 23:40:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 23:40:07 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 84.60.48.239 dslb-084-060-048-239.pools.arcor-ip.net Received: from ([84.60.48.239:18630] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id D0/98-56276-652F8834 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:40:06 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:40:01 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20.BA.56276.A1BC8834@pb1.pair.com> <4388CE54.6060606@gmail.com> <4388D60F.8010103@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4388D60F.8010103@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 84.60.48.239 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: namespace separator ideas From: oliver.graetz@arcor.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Oliver_Gr=E4tz?=) Jessie Hernandez schrieb: > So far, I have these possibilites: > > ::: > :> > <:: > <- > <: OK, now that Marcus threw a PostToLongException('bla'), I'd love to get back to this. Other suggestions were : :: -> .. \ Now some requirements: - needs to work without collisions in the parser (seems to kill ":","::","->") - should be easily distinguishable from other, similar operators (seems to kill ":::") - at least one person on earth should like it (seems to kill "\") This leaves us with: :> <:: <- <: .. I personally do not like ".." but that's just one voice. What about combinations with | (like ":|") ? For a laugh I should ass this link: The periodic table of Perl operators! http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf OLLi