Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:41450 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82606 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2008 13:02:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Oct 2008 13:02:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tom@vector-seven.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tom@vector-seven.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain vector-seven.com from 67.207.131.5 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tom@vector-seven.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.207.131.5 67-207-131-5.slicehost.net Received: from [67.207.131.5] ([67.207.131.5:59325] helo=vector-seven.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6E/E1-34199-FCBB5094 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:02:07 -0500 Received: from laptop (210-84-8-111.dyn.iinet.net.au [210.84.8.111]) (Authenticated sender: tom) by vector-seven.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA907842C0; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by laptop with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KuRjX-0004KG-NV; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:02:11 +1100 Message-ID: <4905BBD3.5060404@vector-seven.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:02:11 +1100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steph Fox CC: Arvids Godjuks , Lester Caine , PHP internals References: <49047D62.1030900@lsces.co.uk> <49059FC1.2060702@vector-seven.com> <9b3df6a50810270411t2b8e050au33d68564225311d4@mail.gmail.com> <4905A81F.3070506@vector-seven.com> <031f01c9382c$670224c0$3ffc1f3e@foxbox> In-Reply-To: <031f01c9382c$670224c0$3ffc1f3e@foxbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: From: tom@vector-seven.com (Thomas Lee) Steph Fox wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > >> Anyway, my point is that there may be other options. Such as putting >> off a long-sought feature until it can be implemented properly. > > OK, since you obviously didn't do any background reading before > posting to this list, let me direct you to the history behind this > decision once again: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator. Let > me also point out that this only covers the last few weeks; the > namespace discussions on this very list, in-depth and otherwise, date > back some 5 years. > Actually I've been following namespaces for a fair while, but the issue of :: being a problem wasn't really raised until a few weeks ago. So while I'm aware of namespaces being under discussion for a fair while, yesterday was the first I'd heard about a decision being made for the backslash being used as a namespace separator. Sounds like I'm not the only one. Hope it all works out, either way. Cheers, T