Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20733 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70891 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Nov 2005 17:39:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 70874 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2005 17:39:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Nov 2005 17:39:14 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.60.120.90 iconoclast.caedmon.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([69.60.120.90:40056] helo=iconoclast.caedmon.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id EB/4D-21657-2C04B834 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:39:14 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by iconoclast.caedmon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Egmwe-0006Gm-00; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:37:41 -0500 Message-ID: <438B4143.9020504@caedmon.net> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:41:23 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart de Boer CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <87.57.21657.F3F2B834@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator poll, update From: sean@caedmon.net (Sean Coates) > How about ;; then? > name1;;name2::myfunction(); PLEASE, MAKE IT STOP! ;; is already perfectly valid syntax: sean@iconoclast:~$ php5 -r 'define("name1",FALSE); class name2{function myfunction(){ echo "foo\n"; }} name1;;name2::myfunction();' foo * Pre-existing operators are out of the question. * Enforcing whitespace is out of the question. * There's no solid reason not to use "\" ("I think it's ugly" is not a solid reason). This thread isn't actually accomplishing anything. If I'm not mistaken, it's degraded to the point that many of the core devs (the ones who'll actually make the final decision) have stopped paying attention. We're talking in circles and are probably getting nothing resolved. S