Namespace question View as Markdown

"const" keyword is currently allowed only inside class-definitions;
generic constants are specified using "define()"

I know that..
Right now you can do.

--File: ns.php--
namespace What
define ('NAME', 'booo');

class Tester
{
public function __construct()
{
echo 'yeah.. no!';
}
}

--File: testns.php--
require 'ns.php';

echo NAME; // Will echo booo without importing the namespace

// And

$obj = new Tester; // This as it should do, will return an error.

// Change to that:

import What as A;
$obj = new A::Tester; // This will echo yeah...No as it should.

So my question is: Anyone thinking in doing const for namespaces thus
calling something like

What::NAME; // echo 'booo'

?

Hey guys, looking at the minutes meeting from the paris conf
(http://php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html), I was wondering if "
Constants in name spaces are allowed unless we find problems with the
implementation. " were implemented. I tried but putting

namespace MyPackage;
const NAME = 'inspace';

Then I get a parse error. (Unexpected T_CONST..)

Is that normal ? Looking at the minutes notes I can not really see
what of this list that has been discussed by the attendees has been
implemented.

Enlighten me someone please.

And yes these notes were built nearly 2 years ago.

Thanks for your replies.

--
David Coallier,
Founder & Software Architect,
Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com)
51.42.06.70.18

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Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/

--
David Coallier,
Founder & Software Architect,
Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com)
51.42.06.70.18

We are working on this feature and additional patch will be posted for
review on this week.

Thanks. Dmitry.

-----Original Message-----
From: david.coallier@gmail.com
[mailto:david.coallier@gmail.com] On Behalf Of David Coallier
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 8:24 PM
To: PHP Internals List
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Namespace question

Hey guys, looking at the minutes meeting from the paris conf
(http://php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html), I was wondering
if " Constants in name spaces are allowed unless we find
problems with the implementation. " were implemented. I tried
but putting

namespace MyPackage;
const NAME = 'inspace';

Then I get a parse error. (Unexpected T_CONST..)

Is that normal ? Looking at the minutes notes I can not
really see what of this list that has been discussed by the
attendees has been implemented.

Enlighten me someone please.

And yes these notes were built nearly 2 years ago.

Thanks for your replies.

--
David Coallier,
Founder & Software Architect,
Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com)
51.42.06.70.18

--

Ah ok, the discussions were quick.

--
David Coallier,
Founder & Software Architect,
Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com)
51.42.06.70.18