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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha2 scheduled
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:53 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 16:50, Ólafur Waage <olafurw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I found that he had one valid question that i would like to see answered.
> >
> >> is the below allowed ?
> >>
> >> $bar = new Module \ Foo \ Bar();
> >>
> >> I find it easier to read than with out the space.
> >
> > Since it looks pretty good with the spaces there.
> 
> I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed. You can already do
> function_name               (), or classname        ::     methodname
>  ().
> This isn't python, the parser doesn't really care about the spaces :)

It might work in some places, not always, consider
<?php
    $class = '\ foo \ bar \ baz';
    new $class();
?>

as the name is stored without spaces in the class table, not sure
whether it's worth parsing whitespaces in such cases...

johannes