jayarsee Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 It seems that a few PHP Gods In The Sky had a quick IRC discussion and now a major feature of the language is decided forever: http://wiki.php.net/_media/rfc/php.ns.txt?id=rfc%3Anamespaceseparator Since this decision was made a while back there has been a lot of back and forth about why . or :: would not work as well as \, and although I've still never seen an OO extraordinaire loose a debate while defending the lack of ambiguity offered by ::, that tired discussion is not what I intend to rehash here. Rather, I have found that defended well or not, \ is such a distracting character to litter my code with that I have simply worked around the need for namespaces as I always had prior to their availability. Moreover, I intend to pout about this decision for as long as I can. In a way I feel like I asked my parents for a car for 3 years and when I finally got one it was a Pinto. Has anyone else found themselves in a similar position, or perhaps did at one point and since abandoned it and are glad they did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 I don't really see the big deal. It needed to be some single char in my opinion, and that's what we got. Live with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyx Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Personally, I don't really see a point in discussing about it. It's a normal character, like any other, and the plus is that it does not introduce any ambiguity. This is why they could not use :: or . I started using PHP namespaces a couple of months ago and I even liked it. It's a normal character, like any other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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