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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:48:16 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Getting a list of registered namespaces.
From: rquadling@gmail.com (Richard Quadling)

On 16 June 2011 17:40, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 6/16/11 8:37 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
>>
>> Maybe, but because of a lack of convention on naming, we have namespaces.
>
> No, we have namespaces not because we couldn't agree on naming convention,
> but because any naming convention without namespaces would lead to ugly code
> (which you call "sensible long names" but which rapidly stop being sensible
> if you actually try to do it).

I was joking.

>
>> So it would seem appropriate to have the ability to investigate a
>> namespace to see what it contains and/or if it exists.
>>
>> Why? For exactly the same reasons you have class_exists(),
>> interface_exists(), function_exists().
>
> Classes and functions actually exist as objects in the engine. Namespaces do
> not. They are just parts of names. You can not instantiate a namespace, you
> can not call a namespace. So these reasons do not apply.


And now I understand. Thanks for that.

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