Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:48049 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56954 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2010 18:18:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Apr 2010 18:18:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Linux 2.6 Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:60505] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7B/A9-63467-4814FCB4 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:18:45 -0400 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1O4eVQ-0001q9-Ug; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:18:37 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:18:36 +0100 To: Stanislav Malyshev Cc: Jacob Oettinger , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20100421181836.GD4472@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Stanislav Malyshev , Jacob Oettinger , internals@lists.php.net References: <4BCE44B8.6060600@zend.com> <52D97E557393477BB08167B13DEF4679@pc> <20100421142826.GO5201@phcomp.co.uk> <4BCF37B7.8090205@zend.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BCF37B7.8090205@zend.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A critique of PHP 6 From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:36:55AM -0700, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > \_array\merge($array, $array2); > > \_string\len($string); > > how it's better or more clean than array_merge or strlen? I am a big fan > of OO and use it all the time, but there's a virtue in moderation - if > you just want a length of a string, you son't have to build class > hierachy with design patterns on top to do it - just take the length of > the string! I agree with you. I just wanted to avoid namespace name pollution by proposing a reservation of some of the name space *IF* this idea goes ahead -- I do not think that it is a good idea - for the reasons that I gave when this was first proposed. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include