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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Trait aliasing syntax suggestions
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 21.02.2008, at 07:55, Gregory Beaver wrote:

> Simply re-using "trait" instead of "use" is a more self-documenting
> solution.  I found it slightly confusing to see "use" when that is a
> namespace-specific token currently.  This is also in keeping with the
> way functions are defined in interfaces vs. implementation, but in
> reverse (for traits, brackets are used for declaration, semi-colon  
> used
> for instantiation).

I like "trait" instead of "use" or any of the other proposals as well

> Obviously, using "unset" is more similar to current PHP ideas on how  
> to
> remove something, and the "as" syntax is also very PHP-ish, these will
> be far more self-documenting than the proposed syntaxes I've read  
> thus far.

Unset seems to send the wrong message again. "hide" might be better?  
As I said before "as" for aliasing is a good choice, or "alias" to  
make it even clearer.

@Stefan: are you keeping track of all the different syntax proposals?

regards,
Lukas