Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49276 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49593 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 19:56:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2010 19:56:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=christian.kaps@mohiva.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=christian.kaps@mohiva.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain mohiva.com designates 78.46.69.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: christian.kaps@mohiva.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.46.69.5 zucker.schokokeks.org Received: from [78.46.69.5] ([78.46.69.5:49034] helo=zucker.schokokeks.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 71/50-61991-BEEA16C4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:56:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.178.2] (p57B53BCA.dip.t-dialin.net [::ffff:87.181.59.202]) (AUTH: PLAIN christian.kaps@mohiva.com, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,CAMELLIA256-SHA) by zucker.schokokeks.org with esmtp; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:56:24 +0200 id 00000000000180BF.000000004C61AEE9.00005A6A Message-ID: <4C61AEEC.4030307@mohiva.com> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:56:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100807 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Namespace separator constant From: christian.kaps@mohiva.com (Christian Kaps) Hi, is there any reason why no namespace separator constant exists in PHP. I have many cases where I concatenate strings to a namespace. This ends up with many class constants like const NS_SEPARATOR = '\\'. A default PHP constant would be a better way to handle such cases. Greetings, Christian