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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:30:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator poll, update
From: manchokapitancho@gmail.com (Marian Kostadinov)

Is ` (back quote) suitable for namespace separator? I cannot remember
just now if it was used somewhere.

2005/11/28, Ron Korving <r.korving@xit.nl>:
> wow, I like foo~>bar~>obj->method()
> I love ':' best, but if that really can't be, I must say '~>' looks prett=
y
> cool to me, cute even, like a little fishie ;)
>
> anywaaay.. the best alternative to ':' i've seen so far, and i doubt it'l=
l
> cause problems with any existing operator.
>
> - ron
>
>
>
> ""Ford, Mike"" <M.Ford@leedsmet.ac.uk> schreef in bericht
> news:CDA511FF6152D14E922434CE338CE8BB275841@leedsmet-exch1.leedsmet.ac.uk=
...
> On 28 November 2005 09:50, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
> > > > BUT the discussion is not only about possibility but also about
> > > > what you would like. The ":" for example would work if mandatory
> > > > whitespace would be introduced for the ternary BUT this is very
> > > > very bad.
> >
> > If my vote is counted (not that I asked for it :) then I vote against
> > all funky syntax, present and future. :: is only thing that is
> > obvious and somehow connected to the world of PHP as we know it now.
>
>
> Wow!  I go home early on a Friday, and come back to a veritable php-dev
> flood in my Inbox! That must be the most active weekend since I started
> reading the list!!
>
> My point of view is similar to Stanislav's: any operator chosen should ha=
ve
> some echo of existing syntax -- this rules out the original suggestion of=
 \
> and many of the suggested alternatives.  I'm also completely against any
> solution that introduces new enforced whitespace, however unlikely the
> construct -- that just doesn't seem like "the PHP way".
>
> The two existing "class to member" operators are :: and ->, so I'd be
> looking at analogues of these.  I'm not keen on :: itself performing
> double-duty here, and I hate ::: and most of the repeated-character
> suggestions (%%, .., **, etc.) -- especially as the single-character
> versions all have completely unrelated meanings.
>
> This leaves me looking for something not dissimilar to ->.  It's a shame
> that =3D> is already taken, as that would have done nicely.  :> (or ::>),
> despite their smiley-ness, are actually quite clever suggestions, contain=
ing
> echoes of both :: and -> -- I'd be ok with either of these.  Another
> possibility I haven't seen offered, and that has strong echoes of ->, is =
~>.
> I can't see any conflicts here, it's sufficiently similar to be obviously
> related, but sufficiently different to be easily distinguished.
>
> What do people think?
>
> (Space for flame here...)
>
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
>
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