Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31550 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7828 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Aug 2007 13:52:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7809 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2007 13:52:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Aug 2007 13:52:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rquadling@googlemail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rquadling@googlemail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain googlemail.com designates 64.233.162.238 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rquadling@googlemail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.162.238 nz-out-0506.google.com Received: from [64.233.162.238] ([64.233.162.238:42665] helo=nz-out-0506.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2C/D1-30147-C1260C64 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:52:30 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id x7so447622nzc for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:52:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UdR6dA5E6CfnU31vhH/oU3jlRAzfpOA7SyCUXFoHrFQgeYNSdNAj5jWdhSzYCu0hukGz+/KoAafOPvJEHMDvuRly/ZB+tm7HSD8qUQ59AQ7N4RI/1uFT5sat06FoB6IrgX0yTz5tqlYSQIoQPmId1287dcM7D6J3V/UP7qcYF/o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Pw0j0XJXw3VjFZ7T5ayBTGSx6/TQf2QPn7IxEqYi+SuH5kLx1ssfIJs4Rb5wCU3sIkiZfSMUQzslKjOW1psJSnnZgBB4HajCg7CRy1IQ06r4tdcN9rDMnJZcLHSkC1tspXZE3o8jZjVgOSZZFQL+J+2iTCDKju55/v5Zn/w/IK8= Received: by 10.114.149.2 with SMTP id w2mr2316411wad.1187013144182; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.74.10 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <10845a340708130652x7dfde442m9d74af12740fd2a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:52:24 +0100 Reply-To: RQuadling@GoogleMail.com To: Tijnema Cc: "Larry Garfield" , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46BE14B1.5050209@zend.com> <46C04DD4.8060205@keryx.se> <200708130835.04488.larry@garfieldtech.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages] From: rquadling@googlemail.com ("Richard Quadling") On 13/08/07, Tijnema wrote: > Since JavaScript (or ECMAScript) doesn't have namespaces, people that > hear the name namespace for php will either don't know what it is, or > think that it's the same as the C implementation. > > Tijnema I don't know what namespaces look like in other langs, but the idea of a "namespace" is common to many languages and promoting encapsulation to stop adding things to the global namespace is common also. namespace works very well for what it does (as I see it). -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"