Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:39030 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 42257 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2008 02:53:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 02:53:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=robert@interjinn.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=robert@interjinn.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain interjinn.com from 66.11.173.122 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: robert@interjinn.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.11.173.122 unknown Received: from [66.11.173.122] ([66.11.173.122:60652] helo=interjinn.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id ED/35-54589-FF3BE784 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:52:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (blobule.suds [192.168.1.3]) by interjinn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEC611FB81; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:52:38 -0400 (EDT) To: Greg Beaver Cc: php-dev In-Reply-To: <487EB028.5090201@chiaraquartet.net> References: <487EB028.5090201@chiaraquartet.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: InterJinn Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:52:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1216263164.7769.591.camel@blobule> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] questions about namespaces, functions vs. closures From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:36 -0400, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hi, > > Some questions about namespaces now that PHP 5.3 continues to evolve > > 1) Do we need functions in namespaces now that we have closures? Functions suffer just as much as classes with respect to naming collisions. Removal of support for functions in any namespace implementation would be short-sighted. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP