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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:50:14 +0100
To: Dan <iammrdan@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Larry Garfield" <larry@garfieldtech.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Call it: allow reserved words in a class or not?
From: troelskn@gmail.com ("troels knak-nielsen")

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Dan <iammrdan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> What if you want to provide a set of helper/wrapper classes, appropriately
> namespaced, something along the lines of:
> MyFramework\Helpers\Array
> MyFramework\Helpers\Database
> MyFramework\Helpers\Session
> etc.
>
> If I want to use that naming convention, I don't want to have to name some
> of my classes differently just because PHP can't deal with it. It may not be
> trivial to fix, but to the end-developer, it's a trivial problem and it's
> something that should just work.

I think the point is the same as with Zend_Validate_Interface ; While
MyFramework\Helpers is a fair namespace, Array is a bad classname. You
should use something like MyFramework\Helpers\ArrayHelper

FWIW Zend_Validate_Interface looks odd to me today already, for that
reason exactly. I read two namespaces and a classname, and that
classname doesn't make much sense.

--
troels