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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] allowing multiple namespaces per file plus namespaces with brackets
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Guilherme Blanco wrote:

> Also, mentioning the Rasmus piece of code:
>
> foo.inc:
> namespace A {
>  include 'bar.inc';
> }
>
>
> bar.inc:
> namespace B {
>  ...
> }
>
> I don't know how do you control it internally, but as long as this is
> the only call in the entire script, the right scope should be: A::B,
> and not B. If I include bar.inc outside any namespace scope, then it
> should be B.

I have to disagree here.  If I'm doing conditional includes (I know opcode 
caches don't like it, but any modular, plugin-based system rather has to), 
then I don't want to have the namespace of my included code vary depending on 
where I include it.  That means that I need to force all of my include 
statements to be outside of a namespace unless I want namespaces to stack, 
and stack differently depending on where they get called.  That's a huge can 
of worms I really don't want to deal with.

Were the code above to be run, I'd expect and want a namespace A and a 
namespace B, and that's it.  My code ends up being too non-deterministic 
otherwise.  Forget the compiler, I can't cope with that. :-)

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