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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Call it: allow reserved words in a class or not?
From: et@php.net (Stefan Walk)

On Friday 07 November 2008 14:47:59 Josh Thompson wrote:
> Johannes Schl=FCter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:19 -0600, Josh Thompson wrote:
> >> I don't understand why in the namespaced example no one seems to have a
> >> problem with new A() meaning new \foo\bar\A(), but we can't use the *
> >> wildcard to do the same thing?
> >
> > Since we don't reliable know all possible classes, think about
> > _-autoloading classes, which means we'd have to do more work during
> > execution, which can be a slowdown.
> >
> > johannes
>
> But we don't reliably know all possible classes in the namespace
> example, where we can be autoloading the classes. In the wildcard
> example we (c/w)ould already be autoloading the classes anyway, but
> instead of sending the class names (A and B) we would send it the
> namespace class names first (foo\bar\A and foo\bar\B) and then if that
> failed try without the namespace. If one of the classes (B for example)
> is in the global namespace, then the developer can simply prefix it with
> a (\B) to save on one autoload call.
>
> I still don't see the fundamental difference between the namespace and
> wildcard example.

"using" wildcards is considered bad practice in about any language I know, =
i=20
wonder why people are so anxious to get it into PHP ... anyways, one=20
fundamental difference is that while you can be only in one namespace, you=
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can "use" from many.

Regards,
Stefan