Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:20999 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31819 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Dec 2005 12:45:18 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 31804 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2005 12:45:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Dec 2005 12:45:18 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.142.83.254 64-142-83-254.dsl.static.sonic.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([64.142.83.254:40245] helo=64-142-83-254.dsl.static.sonic.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 12/B3-14828-DD140934 for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:45:18 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=192.168.1.2) by 64-142-83-254.dsl.static.sonic.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EiAHn-0003uW-Qo; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:45:11 -0800 Received: from 192.168.1.101 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mark) by 192.168.1.2 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 04:45:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3403.192.168.1.101.1133527511.squirrel@192.168.1.2> In-Reply-To: References: <20.BA.56276.A1BC8834@pb1.pair.com> <7A.02.14828.9B9AF834@pb1.pair.com> <98.42.14828.81BAF834@pb1.pair.com> <438FD635.1080308@gmail.com> <14.27.14828.90EFF834@pb1.pair.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 04:45:11 -0800 (PST) To: "Stanislav Malyshev" Cc: "Bart de Boer" , internals@lists.php.net Reply-To: mes@zeroc.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: namespace separator ideas From: mes@zeroc.com ("Mark Spruiell") > BdB>>The above can either mean "call function c in namespace b under > BdB>>namespace a" or "call static method c of class b under namespace a". > BdB>>Since this cannot be determined, "::" cannot be used. > > This provided we support nested namespaces. Do we need them? Nested namespaces are important if PHP is to support a natural mapping from interface definition languages such as CORBA IDL, which does allow arbitrarily nested namespaces. - Mark