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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about Namespace patch
From: andrew.minerd@sellingsource.com (Andrew Minerd)

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:53:38 -0700
stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) wrote:

> > Where I can see a huge use for namespaces is plugin-based architectures.  Each 
> > plugin is its own namespace.  If you have a list of plugins, then you have a 
> > list of namespaces and can iterate over that and invoke the same operation on 
> > each plugin.  That would require call_user_func() and call_user_func_array() 
> > and the rest of that family to be able to handle namespaces.  How would one 
> 
> Since namespace is just a part of class name, I don't see any problem 
> for call_user_func() to be able to use namespaced names. Of course, they 
> should get full class name - if you want to use shorter ones you'd have 
> to change something. Here we might need some functionality, but it's not 
> clear to me yet which one.
> 
> 

w/ snapshot from yesterday:

andrewm@ds38 /usr/local/src/php6.0-200707232030 $ cat ./namespace3.php 
<?php
namespace test;

class Blah { static function test() { echo "Test\n"; } }

call_user_func(array(__NAMESPACE__.'::Blah', 'test'));
?>

andrewm@ds38 /usr/local/src/php6.0-200707232030 $ ./sapi/cli/php ./namespace3.php 
Test


Andrew Minerd
Software Architect
The Selling Source, Inc.