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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: towards a 5.3 release
From: jochem@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas)

Elizabeth M Smith schreef:
> Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> Personally I don't see the point of of having functions in namespaces if
>>> you can't "use" them in a global scope.
>> You mean, if you can do foo() it has a point but if it's F::foo() it
>> doesn't? Then I think your point was purely cosmetical from the start
>> and wasn't real either way. Saving 3-4 keystrokes was never a major goal.
>> namespaces weren't really meant as mechanism to replace functions in
>> code without anybody noticing - they are not that hack. It might be a
>> neat hack for some uses - but I just don't think it has anything to do
>> with namespaces.
> 
> Depends on what you think namespaces are for.
> 
> For me they are ways to "package up" code without interfering with built
> in PHP functions or other libraries I wish to use.
> 
> I don't want to retrain myself or others to call all functions in my
> code as though they were static methods.  I want to be able to have
> functions with the same names as php functions without prefixing or
> other extra typing - not because it saves keystrokes, but because it's
> confusing - is that a function call or a method call?

ofcourse that whole issues actually arises from the brilliant decision
to use '::' as the namespace resolution operator. not that functions
shouldn't be fully aliasable if classes can be.

> 
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>