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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:19:45 +0300
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] "PHP" namespace?
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote:
>>
>> This would be a major BC break, that couldn't possibly happen in PHP
>> 5.x and IMO is way too radical even for PHP 6/7.
>
>
> It wouldn't be major BC, but minor.
>
> Most compatible way is to allow namespace alias to \ (root) and simply
> override
> existing functions. There isn't BC with this. PHP allows it already when it
> is done
> one by one.
>
> If we would like to have clean \ (root) namespace optionally, it's matter of
> adding
> a setting.
>
> What make you think it a major BC?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yasuo Ohgaki
> yohgaki@ohgaki.net

If you'd alias the root namespace to \php or whatever, what's the
point in all of it?

I don't see such, so I assumed that you meant to require developers to
explicitly import whatever they need in the root namespace. And that
would be a major BC break.

Cheers,
Andrey.