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PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist

Posted by Soulskill on from the or-maybe-more-of-a-slant dept.

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."

8 of 523 comments (clear)

  1. Going back to DOS style... by joaommp · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and comming full circle.

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    1. Re:Going back to DOS style... by joaommp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Jeez, take a joke as it is, will you?

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  2. Can\'t read summary by jspenguin1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couldn\'t read the summary because it had an unterminated string literal.

  3. But in PHP for Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll be /, just to keep things interesting.

  4. Re:A long overdue addition by FooAtWFU · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will happily adjust myself in this ONE manor

    While you're livin' it up at your stately manor, I'm coding PHP out of my garage, you insensitive clod!

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  5. Re:The BASIC of the 21st century by Dragonslicer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Today is a Wonderful Day by redink1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The number of days that an old, crusty Perl developer can laugh at another language are few and far between.

    Thank you, PHP.

  7. Easy to fix this by sfjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since PHP is open source, someone will make a fork with a different separator and the dumber of the two choices will wither away.

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