Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76224 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 58422 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2014 10:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jul 2014 10:33:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.199 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.199 imap11-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.199] ([192.64.116.199:59637] helo=imap11-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 21/27-26001-51726D35 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:33:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8BE8800D5; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:34:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap11.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap11.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id wQTUq8Pk7a_o; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:34:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E029088000B; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:34:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:34:01 +0100 Cc: "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: To: Yasuo Ohgaki X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] "PHP" namespace? From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 28 Jul 2014, at 03:58, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > If it is changed to use its own namespace, user space APIs may be = changed > flexible and user controlled manner. Thus, PHP may have >=20 > - Consistent naming > - Consistent parameter order > - Graceful function/class/interface deprecation > (We know what we should do for these, right?) >=20 > without much compatibility issues. I really don=92t like this idea. This has been suggested already for the = primitive type (string and array) functions. However, I must concur with = Nikita when I say that I=92d much rather write $foo->split() than = string\split($foo). See: = http://nikic.github.io/2014/03/14/Methods-on-primitive-types-in-PHP.html Introducing a load of aliases in namespaces might lead to consistency, = sure, but now there=92s more characters you need to type, and aside from = consistency there=92s not that much benefit. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/