Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:26600 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65747 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Nov 2006 08:36:51 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65732 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2006 08:36:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Nov 2006 08:36:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net from 82.94.239.5 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:41236] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7B/12-51418-1A1DA554 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:36:50 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAF8akxs027796; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:36:46 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:36:00 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Hans Lellelid cc: internals In-Reply-To: <4554C945.3000509@velum.net> Message-ID: References: <4554AE0D.4080600@caedmon.net> <4554B9B5.5090305@caedmon.net> <4554C2C7.9070502@caedmon.net> <4554C945.3000509@velum.net> X-Face: "L'&?Ah3MYF@FB4hU'XhNhLB]222(Lbr2Y@F:GE[OO;"F5p>qtFBl|yVVA&D{A(g3[C}mG:199P+5C'v.M/u@Z\![0b:Mv.[l6[uWl' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces in PHP 6 - ++$take From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Hans Lellelid wrote: > > >> I think there is far more > >> demand for a fast & stable PHP then for syntatic sugar features which > >> seem extremely useful, but in the end prove to carry too much baggage. > >> > > > > Nothing has been proven either way.. at least not publicly.. unless I > > just missed it. > > I haven't talked to a single developer a large-scale PHP tool, > application, etc. that wouldn't switch their trunk to using namespaces > tomorrow if they were adopted in the engine. You did now then. YOu can't simply switch to using namespaces as you'd have two branches to maintain that suddendly. Although namespaces would have helped if it was there from the beginning, we have no problems with using prefixes at all. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org