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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:57:08 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BreakIterator
From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt (Gustavo Lopes)

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:40:19 +1000, David Muir wrote:
> Coming from a "pleb", my only concern is the name if the class is in 
> the
> global scope. A "BreakIterator" to me sounds like something related 
> to
> breaking out of a looping structure, and not something used for
> iterating over various language structure boundaries.
> If it's in a ICU namespace, then it's not a problem, as it's clearly
> related to Unicode.
>

We currently don't use namespaces in any of the core extensions. All 
the other symbols in ext/intl are in the global namespace; to put 
BreakIterator in a new namespace would be inconsistent -- and to put the 
whole extension would be a huge BC break.

As to the name chosen to the class, it just mirrors the name used in 
ICU. In some cases, we prefixed the class name with Intl, in order to 
minimize the likelihood of symbols collisions or distinguish it from 
other similar functionality in PHP (something namespaces would be more 
appropriate for), but otherwise we prefer to keep the symbols names used 
in ICU in order to make it easy for people who already know the native 
API.

Additionally, I think your concerns are exaggerated. The symbol 
BreakIterator can only used in contexts where it's obvious it's a class 
name, as in BreakIterator::createWordInstance('en').

-- 
Gustavo Lopes