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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:09:47 +0200
To: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces sanity: addition to RFC explaining why Stas's proposal doesn't work
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com ("Hannes Magnusson")

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:54, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>>
>>> I was asked to explain why I hadn't included ClassName->Method(); in the
>>> list of ideas that solve the ambiguity problem.  I added a brief section
>>
>> Can we please start small and then incrementally add more features?
>> Lets start with classes only in namespaces in 5.3.
>
> The problem with that statement is that if it is used to ignore the other
> problems, then at some point it may be necessary to re-write all the new
> namespace code simply to allow additional features to be added!

tough luck. If it needs total rewrite in the future then it needs
total rewrite now to support the additional features anyway.

-Hannes