Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20983 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33514 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Dec 2005 01:56:10 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33499 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2005 01:56:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Dec 2005 01:56:10 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 69.209.137.241 adsl-69-209-137-241.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net Received: from ([69.209.137.241:26359] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 7A/02-14828-9B9AF834 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:56:09 -0500 Message-ID: <7A.02.14828.9B9AF834@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:01:41 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20.BA.56276.A1BC8834@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20.BA.56276.A1BC8834@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 69.209.137.241 Subject: Re: namespace separator ideas From: gamblergluck@yahoo.com (Roman Ivanov) I hate the idea of voting for features, but since it might have some affect on the language, I will add my opinion to the heap. ::: - Bad, because it's three characters. : - Good, because it's one character, and it does not look like something else. \ - It's one character, but it looks like division/escape sequence. Plus, it will raise syntactic hell in some editors. Radical idea: 1) Use :. 2) Make : to work like ::. 3) Make : to work like ->. 4) But no one will agree to it anyway, so I stop here.