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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces: Technical proposal
From: dz@bitxtender.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_Z=FClke?=)

Cool. If that won't work, I'd rather have ::: over \, please ;)

- David


Am 28.11.2005 um 22:52 schrieb Oliver Gr=E4tz:

> Hi folks!
>
> I had some PM discussions about the (presumably premature) death of =20=

> ":"
> as the namespace symbol.
>
> Most people liked this, some liked "::" (which will definetely NOT =20
> work)
> and then the opinion was very split with a lot of people saying =20
> "OK, if
> it has to be" to ":::". Some folks even resigned and went for the =20
> widely
> hated "\". I'll recompile a table later this night with corrected
> opinions (don't worry, I have redflagged all vote posts in my =20
> Thunderbird).
>
> But now there might be a possibility to go with ":". Jessie will test
> this out and I suppose he'll come out with results (hopefully =20
> positive).
>
> Here's the idea: When the tokenizer encounters the opening "?" of the
> ternary, it DEACTIVATES the namespace operator until the end of the
> ternary. This way, all old code will behave as before, nothing will be
> broken. Of course, this absolutely requires the use of parentheses if
> one absolutely needs to use namespaces inside the ternary. As such =20
> cases
> will be pretty rare, this is no big drawback. The good thing: no
> whitespace magic is needed!
>
> Comments?
>
> OLLi
>
> --=20
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