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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:02:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BreakIterator
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

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How about IntlBreakIterator? I agree with David that the naming is very
weird, it doesn't hint at something from Intl but another crazy spl
iterator :-)

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt>wrote:

> 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').
>
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