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PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist
jeevesbond writes "PHP is finally getting support for namespaces. However, after a couple hours of conversation, the developers picked '\' as the separator, instead of the more popular '::'. Fredrik Holmström points out some problems with this approach. The criteria for selection were ease of typing and parsing, how hard it was to make a typo, IDE compatibility, and the number of characters."
... and comming full circle.
Onda Technology Institute
I couldn\'t read the summary because it had an unterminated string literal.
It'll be /, just to keep things interesting.
While you're livin' it up at your stately manor, I'm coding PHP out of my garage, you insensitive clod!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
... to cause for windows servers...
imagine what directories will be deleted due to a typo!
PHP is far from dead. PHP5, with support for real OO, was a huge improvement. There's been a lot of hard work put in to PHP in the last few years to make it a much more viable modern programming language.
Then I see people suggesting \ for a namespace separator, and I wonder what happened to all the people that put so much work into making PHP5 good, and why we can't get them back.
The number of days that an old, crusty Perl developer can laugh at another language are few and far between.
Thank you, PHP.
Since PHP is open source, someone will make a fork with a different separator and the dumber of the two choices will wither away.
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.