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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reserved namespaces
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 13.03.2009, at 00:39, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

> Christian Schneider wrote:
>> Things gettings reserved at a later stage (like originally  
>> keywords, now
>> namespaces) can lead to a big deal of frustration. Therefore I  
>> think it
>> is crucial to have a clear naming guide now.
>> And these guidelines have to be noticed by everybody who starts to  
>> use
>> namespaces so they have to be placed prominently.
>> Personally I'd even prefer them to be enforced in code so they  
>> can't be
>> missed.
>> Removing restrictions later on causes less trouble so I wouldn't mind
>> too much if a couple of namespaces (or namespace prefixes) are  
>> reserved
>> but never used.
>
> Just a gentle reminder to make sure we don't miss this..


Well cant we just use the class naming guide? As in put a prefix in  
your namespace names, do not use an extension name (or something that  
could likely become an extension name) as your prefix.

Then again for classes we say that the prefix should be prepended with  
an underscore as the separator as the ultimate protection. That of  
course does not seem feasible for namespaces.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org