Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:40423 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47595 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2008 02:48:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Sep 2008 02:48:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=larry@garfieldtech.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=larry@garfieldtech.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain garfieldtech.com from 76.96.62.48 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: larry@garfieldtech.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 76.96.62.48 qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net Received: from [76.96.62.48] ([76.96.62.48:54624] helo=QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 38/04-23799-08537C84 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:48:34 -0400 Received: from OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.60]) by QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CqRS1a06R1HzFnQ55qoWHT; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:48:30 +0000 Received: from earth.ufp ([24.13.255.226]) by OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CqoW1a00D4trKQ83aqoWhL; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:48:30 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=YrXM9fR8KCEA:10 a=BQY6-l8OqD-KyQLL8l8A:9 a=V-0sjIZLt-l3U8A8AmbSftxvAzoA:4 a=FHBbIDN7CdwA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by earth.ufp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A66D7A14 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:48:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from earth.ufp ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (earth.ufp [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C3kQlj+UtHpR for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:48:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from luna.wufi.wustl.edu (pat2.wufi.wustl.edu [128.252.78.82]) by earth.ufp (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B7DBD7A0F for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:48:28 -0500 (CDT) To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:48:25 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <48C7215D.1070806@zend.com> In-Reply-To: <48C7215D.1070806@zend.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200809092148.26037.larry@garfieldtech.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: towards a 5.3 release From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield) On Tuesday 09 September 2008 8:22:37 pm Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > I think that PHP is not an OO language and as such there is no reason to > > Namespaces is an OO feature, however. How is the concept of namespaces inherently linked to the use of explicitly defined classes and instances? Really, I don't understand that. There's nothing intrinsic in namespaces that doesn't work without classes. Can you explain to me how namespaces are conceptually dependent on "classic" OOP? -- Larry Garfield larry@garfieldtech.com