Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:39024 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67458 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2008 20:21:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Jul 2008 20:21:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.163 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.163 il-gw1.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.163] ([212.25.124.163:7979] helo=il-gw1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 30/97-54589-0485E784 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:21:20 -0400 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by il-gw1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:21:47 +0300 Received: from [192.168.16.110] ([192.168.16.110]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:21:44 -0700 Message-ID: <487E5858.5060104@zend.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:21:44 -0700 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Kahwe Smith CC: Stefan Priebsch , internals@lists.php.net References: <1216138090.15841.11.camel@steve-laptop> <7f3ed2c30807160034h483ecb49m189e298ba6615406@mail.gmail.com> <487E0D6F.9080609@e-novative.de> <487E4FAE.3050101@zend.com> <487E549F.8020001@e-novative.de> <487E569D.6070707@zend.com> <9676F8D8-9CF1-4F3A-B046-191FE6F3D3B7@pooteeweet.org> In-Reply-To: <9676F8D8-9CF1-4F3A-B046-191FE6F3D3B7@pooteeweet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jul 2008 20:21:44.0511 (UTC) FILETIME=[90BC34F0:01C8E781] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace problem? From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > I think Stefan was just pointing out that allowing something that is > rarely useful is just needlessly confusing, because it makes you think > there is something you are missing. It may be true in some cases, but in general PHP allows to do tons of stuff that is not useful, or at least does not seem to be useful. But I don't think it's productive to spend time on disallowing such things - same time could be spent developing real features :) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com