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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."

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  1. Re:Going back to DOS style... by Hadlock · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Unless you live in china! In which case you'll need to find a mirrored copy of TOR (the onion router) to even be able to ping Wiki. As recently as last august Wikipedia was completely stonewalled in China, along with most western news sites.

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