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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion: Namespace implementation
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On Thursday 27 December 2007, Hans Moog wrote:

> In my oppinion namespaces should only be an additional way of
> structering php elements and using short names again without loosing the
> abilitiy to avoid naming conflicts with 3rd party libraries. Since
> libraries are generally class libraries and because of already being
> able to group variables, constants and functions in static classes i see
> no reason for namespaces to affect the resolution of the previously
> mentioned elements. Instead, they should only affect classes enabling
> the coder to tie packages and use or provide libraries.

"Libraries are generally class libraries" is both wrong and very limiting.  
There is nothing wrong with functions.  Thousands of professional web sites 
run on systems that have not a single class in them quite successfully.  
There are plenty of situations where going all OO is not a good thing, and 
results in more code complexity, not less.

A "complete" namespace implementation supports both classes and functions 
equally.

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