Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20787 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37547 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Nov 2005 22:25:46 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37531 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2005 22:25:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Nov 2005 22:25:46 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.12.155.130 69-12-155-130.dsl.static.sonic.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([69.12.155.130:2014] helo=pigeon.alphaweb.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id DB/A3-21657-AE38B834 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:25:46 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=peiscg33m) by pigeon.alphaweb.net with smtp (Exim 4.10) id 1Egqe9-0006Su-00; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:34:49 -0800 Message-ID: <01d801c5f46a$ac03d450$5c8be5a9@ohr.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: "Sara Golemon" To: "\"Jessie Hernandez\"" Cc: References: <0D.A2.21657.EFE7B834@pb1.pair.com> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:25:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Subject: Re: Basic Namespace Requirements From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon") > So, the question is, can we scrap both namespace constants and namespace > functions and just stay with classes (as was agreed on several months ago, > Andi himself agreeing to it)? This would make the patch smaller, simpler, > AND would allow me to reuse the "::" operator (and there would be no > conflicts with ternary operations). > Absolutely. Static methods and Class constants are more than sufficient. All the added functionality of namespaces without all the baggage. +1 -Sara