Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:32907
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain strojny.net designates 85.10.204.248 as permitted sender)
To: internals@lists.php.net
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:39:54 +0200
Message-ID: <1192887594.3854.8.camel@localhost>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=_milch.schokokeks.org-1254-1192887596-0001-2"
Subject: T_INTERFACE and T_ABSTRACT as valid class names
From: lars@strojny.net (Lars Strojny)

--=_milch.schokokeks.org-1254-1192887596-0001-2
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I've already opened a feature request (#43048) but I feel, that there
need to be a discussion on that topic. The problem is, that the current
pseudo-namespacing used by a huge number of projects (PEAR-style, with
underscores and the related file organisation), could not be easily
ported to namespaces, as the name "Interface" and "Abstract" is not a
valid classname. So something like ...

namespace Zend::Db;
class Abstract {...}

... will not work. Same for ...=20

namespace Zend::Db::Adapter;
interface Interface {...}

Nevertheless it would break some syntax highlighting libraries or maybe
the tokenizer extension, I would propose to allow at least "Abstract"
and "Interface" as a class/interface name. This would make porting to
the namespace methodology much easier (I see it quite plainly, a lot of
people would develop cripple names like Intrfce or Abstrct just to make
the PHP parser happy).

cu, Lars

--=_milch.schokokeks.org-1254-1192887596-0001-2
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)
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=b0Mm
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=_milch.schokokeks.org-1254-1192887596-0001-2--