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To: "Gregory Beaver" <greg@chiaraquartet.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] allowing multiple namespaces per file plus namespaces with brackets
From: david.coallier@nyphp.com

Thanks. someone please commit that as fast as posible so no one can say anything

;-)

On 8/20/07, Gregory Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patch is also available at
> http://pear.php.net/~greg/namespace.patch.txt
>
> The patch adds the syntax "namespace { *stuff }" and allows multiple
> namespaces per file with no performance penalty or added complexity as
> only 4 lines of code need to be changed, and 9 lines of code added to
> implement this support!
>
> Basically, there is one use case of multiple namespaces per file that
> the patch is designed to support, which is the ability to cram many
> files into a single file.  I have done this for purposes of distributing
> things (prior to phar), it is used by some with phing tasks for
> performance reasons, and can have other uses as well.
>
> The patch provides the ability to do this, for example:
>
> <?php
> namespace One {
>     require_once 'blah.php';
>     class MyClass extends blah
>     {
>         function test()
>         {
>             echo "OK\n";
>         }
>     }
>     function test()
>     {
>         echo "OK\n";
>     }
> }
>
> namespace Two {
>     class MyClass
>     {
>         function test()
>         {
>             echo "OK\n";
>         }
>     }
>     function test()
>     {
>         echo "OK\n";
>     }
> }
> ?>
>
> Note that the old format "namespace OneRingToRuleThemAll;" is still
> fully supported, and should be the recommended format, as build tools
> can easily take an entire file, change namespace .*; into namespace .*{
> and append <?php } ?> to the end of the file.
>
> The attached patch is against php6, but as you can see, a blind monkey
> could port it to PHP_5_3 when the time comes.  All of the introduced
> changes are now tested, including the error message for nested namespace
> declarations, and the error message for multiple namespace declarations
> with ; (which was previously untested by .phpt tests)
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>


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