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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about Namespace patch
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Andrew Minerd wrote:
> 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

Mm, nice.  And presumably the same would work for any other namespace, and for 
functions as well as classes/objects.

That should make plugin architectures, both OO and non-OO, a lot cleaner.  
Spiffy. :-)

Do __autoload() and the SPL autoload stack get namespace information as well?  
I didn't get that from the mail archive link posted yesterday.

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