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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] multiple use
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> use FooBar::In::Some::NameSpace as foo,
> SomeOther::Cool:Massive::awesome::space as bar, And::other:namespace
> as foobar;
> vs
> use FooBar::In::Some::NameSpace as foo;
> use SomeOther::Cool:Massive::awesome::space as bar;
> use And::other:namespace as foobar;

Well, with (im)proper formatting many things can be unreadable, but
use FooBar::In::Some::NameSpace             as foo,
     SomeOther::Cool:Massive::awesome::space as bar,
     And::other:namespace                    as foobar;

doesn't seem unreadable at all to me. Repeating "use" is just clutter 
which doesn't add anything. And btw not all names are that long - when I 
actually used namespaces in the code, I found that it'd be much easier 
if I could chain declarations. Just as it is easier to do $a = 
array(1,2,3) and not $a = array(); $a[0] = 1; $a[1] = 2; $a[2] = 3;

> You are comparing apples and oranges. Do we allow foreach($array as
> $key => $arrayval as $key2 => $val) ?

What foreach has to do with it? Foreach doesn't allow multiple elements 
at all. But definitions that do - like const, static, var, etc. - allow 
commas.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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(408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com