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Namespaces already in PHP 5.3
2007-09-29 16:35:28 by Martynas Jusevičius
As some people have already reported, PHP 5.3 has namespace support already submitted to its codebase. This is great news, since PHP was really lacking this feature.
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Why do you consider this to be a lacking feature of PHP? Do you know how this implementation is going to fix anything? If so what is it going to be fixing ?
Thanks :)
David,
2007-09-29 19:26:33 by Martynas
I don't think namespaces are going to fix something, but I hope they will add clarity and allow a nicer design.
For example, we have 2 applications, frontend and backend, which have quite a few equally-named classes. I cannot include them at the same time because the names will conflict. To do that, I first have to rename half of those classes. So I think namespaces will be helpful in such situations.
They might also help in packaging/library creation by showing explicitly what code came from whom and where does it belong.
And in general, I like PHP moving in the Java/.NET direction :D
2007-09-29 22:51:57 by JeanGlode
MIHO I prefer when php moving in a pythonic way...
Namespace tutorial
A complete tutorial on this topic: http://blog.felho.hu/whats-new-in-php-53-part-1-namespaces.html
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Why?
2007-09-29 18:04:42 by David Coallier