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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespace issues
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello William,

Friday, October 17, 2008, 7:57:53 PM, you wrote:

> Marcel Esser wrote:
>> Using ::: as a namespace seperator would be great.

> A general rule of telephony dialing and other data input, three of
> the same character will too often be entered or recognized as two
> or four characters due to user or mechanical error.  That's why
> when you see mnemonic phone numbers they rarely repeat three
> digits in the middle (three 0's at the end for example aren't
> subject to the excess fourth repetition problem).

This is the major flaw with that solution. Personally I just looked at
working code that had (:::) and (\) which is the second option I also
mentioned already long ago. And (:::) can be read very easy. The visual
difference to (::) is big enough. However it is too easy to either type
two or four. Thus the backslash (the only other conflict free) character
is probably the better option - even though no one has done something
like that. Btw, it pretty much suggests thatyou use the same structure
for your directories and files. Which you'd do inside __autoload() most
likely anyway.

Best regards,
 Marcus