namespace support

So Jessie are you still interested? Does anyone with sufficient
ZendEngine2 karma have time to help him get a rock solid
implementation committed?

ZendEngine2 karma is not necessary to help with this task. It's only
needed for commit.

-Andrei

Lukas,

I'm not having much spare time lately, but I'd like to continue working
on the patch as soon as I can. Will the patch be needed only on PHP 6 or
is there a possibility of including it in a minor version (5.3 or 5.4,
perhaps)? If it's only for 6, I'll try to adapt my patch for it over the
next few days.

Regards,

Jessie

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Hello,

Andrei asked me to bring up the topic of namespaces again. From the
meeting notes [1] and the following discussion it seems like we agreed
(once more) to include namespace support in PHP6. However after a time
where we saw a flurry of patches, things have died down. Also Marcus
does not seem to have a lot of time to take ownership of this task
(hopefully he might still have time to "mentor" whoever takes over).

Looking at Marcus's comments [2] following the removal of namespaces
from PHP5 due to issues noticed [3] it seems that the two major issues are:

1. finding a separator
2. fixing import

I propose we just move forward with "" as the separator. It does not
require any fancy changes, so that we can focus on getting the
implementation right. We can always change the separator until the first
stable release if necessary.

A very good summary of the situation can be found here:
http://phpnamespaces.org/wiki/start?rev=1171580102

So Jessie are you still interested? Does anyone with sufficient
ZendEngine2 karma have time to help him get a rock solid implementation
committed?

regards,
Lukas

[1] http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#name-spaces
[2] http://news.php.net/php.internals/2124
[3] http://news.php.net/php.internals/798

Lukas,

I'm not having much spare time lately, but I'd like to continue working
on the patch as soon as I can. Will the patch be needed only on PHP 6 or
is there a possibility of including it in a minor version (5.3 or 5.4,
perhaps)? If it's only for 6, I'll try to adapt my patch for it over the
next few days.

Regards,

Jessie

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Hello,

Andrei asked me to bring up the topic of namespaces again. From the
meeting notes [1] and the following discussion it seems like we agreed
(once more) to include namespace support in PHP6. However after a time
where we saw a flurry of patches, things have died down. Also Marcus
does not seem to have a lot of time to take ownership of this task
(hopefully he might still have time to "mentor" whoever takes over).

Looking at Marcus's comments [2] following the removal of namespaces
from PHP5 due to issues noticed [3] it seems that the two major issues are:

1. finding a separator
2. fixing import

I propose we just move forward with "" as the separator. It does not
require any fancy changes, so that we can focus on getting the
implementation right. We can always change the separator until the first
stable release if necessary.

A very good summary of the situation can be found here:
http://phpnamespaces.org/wiki/start?rev=1171580102

So Jessie are you still interested? Does anyone with sufficient
ZendEngine2 karma have time to help him get a rock solid implementation
committed?

regards,
Lukas

[1] http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#name-spaces
[2] http://news.php.net/php.internals/2124
[3] http://news.php.net/php.internals/798

I think the best separator is :::

Please not the "my separator is weirder than yours" thread again!

Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/