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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:20:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: import/use last call
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Gregory,

  even if you can solve it easily your patch will not solve the fact that we
  won't have a token for that keyword the, or am i missing something?

marcus

Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 1:18:52 AM, you wrote:

> Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> Since many packages (wordpress, propel, horde, phing, etc.) use "import"
>> as either class or function name, and we couldn't find a good solution
>> to make it work with import keyword without going into all kinds of
>> troublesome hacks, so we are thinking about replacing 'import' keyword
>> with 'use' keyword, which is already reserved.
>> 
>> If you know any reason why this may be a problem - please speak now (or
>> forever hold your peace :). Please do not answer this email with
>> proposals to replace 'namespace' keyword with 'package', etc. - it will
>> be offtopic. For this topic please let's discuss only using keyword
>> 'use' instead of 'import'.

> Hold off for a bit - I may have a simple solution that solves the
> problem for class names, method names and functions, have to code the
> patch tonight first to prove it works.

> Greg




Best regards,
 Marcus