Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31556 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49187 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Aug 2007 23:51:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49172 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2007 23:51:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Aug 2007 23:51:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=alan@akbkhome.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=alan@akbkhome.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain akbkhome.com designates 202.81.246.113 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: alan@akbkhome.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 202.81.246.113 246-113.netfront.net Received: from [202.81.246.113] ([202.81.246.113:58592] helo=akbkhome.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A2/D0-38736-07EE0C64 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:51:14 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.27] by akbkhome.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IKjlp-0006rt-DP; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:56:27 +0800 Message-ID: <46C0EE69.10900@akbkhome.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:51:05 +0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keryx Web CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <46BE14B1.5050209@zend.com> <46C04DD4.8060205@keryx.se> In-Reply-To: <46C04DD4.8060205@keryx.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: "cleared badlog" Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages] From: alan@akbkhome.com (Alan Knowles) The two pages for reference. http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/spec/chapter_11_packages.html http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/spec/chapter_12_namespaces.html The spec's quite nice, although a bit of a nightmare to implement in parts ;) - From what I've seen, and I've not been keeping up with all the posts - PHP's implementation looks a bit more like Javascript packages. Regards Alan Keryx Web wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev skrev: > >> And they, btw, are not ashamed of calling it namespaces just because >> it's not c++ ;) > > Exactly. That was my main point. And, as I said,ECMAScript 4 will most > probably be the main other language for most ordinary PHP developers, > not Java and certainly not C. Especially the newbie ones! > > From a pedagogic point of view I'd say "namespaces" is the better name. > > > Lars Gunther >