Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:41412
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 64.99.136.139 as permitted sender)
Message-ID: <013001c937df$d90a5ee0$3ffc1f3e@foxbox>
To: "Greg Beaver" <greg@chiaraquartet.net>,
	"Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com>
Cc: "Andrew Mason" <slackmase2@gmail.com>,
	<nrixham@gmail.com>,
	<internals@lists.php.net>,
	"Lukas Kahwe Smith" <mls@pooteeweet.org>
References: <49048EC1.9060908@chiaraquartet.net>	 <4904F238.8040909@gmail.com>	 <99cd336d0810261558w4d6388edl63eb94b3422d56b5@mail.gmail.com> <1225075131.4941.28.camel@localhost> <49052B6D.2090502@chiaraquartet.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:58:08 -0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	format=flowed;
	charset="iso-8859-1";
	reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: namespace separator and whining
From: steph@php.net ("Steph Fox")

Hi lover,

(sorry, couldn't resist)

> The correct syntax is:
>
> <?php
> // initialize class
> $a = new Framework\Utils\Foo();
> // namespaced function
> Framework\Utils\parse($string);
> // static method
> Project\PEAR\XML::makeEntity('\\');
> // namespaced constant
> if ($a == Framework\Utils\FOO) echo "hi";
> // class constant
> if ($a == Project\PEAR\XML::ZOMG) echo "bye";
> ?>
>
> Note that static class elements are accessed using T_DOUBLE_COLON (::),
> and that the namespace separator \ is used to join namespace and element
> name.

OK... thanks for the clarification. That does actually make perfect sense to 
me, I just read :: as a method call in Robert's example rather than as a new 
class.

Guess I should sleep before typing 'as I understand it' again :)

- Steph