From: hostit at mail dot ru Operating system: All PHP version: 5.3.0alpha3 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Namespace separator
Description: ------------ Hello. As you might know a fairly large amount of PHP developers think that backslash (\) is an inappropriate symbol for namespace separator. [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=php%20namespace%20separator&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wb] Two main reasons are: 1. It's ugly. (Indeed.) 2. Confusion with escaping. As the roar strengthens, it's starting to appear that it might be one of the nails in the PHP coffin. Just look at the amount of FUD spread because of this damned backslash... For us, the PHP developers, it's very dangerous tendency, because we have invested a lot of our time (read: money) into PHP software. Please, please, PLEASE reconsider that. I understand the problems with "::", but I think there can be a solution - to throw fatal error when there's a conflict between static method name and the function in a namespace. (You can't declare two functions/classes with the same name, can you? And it is logical and expected behavior.) I'm sure it will make PHP programmers happy. As it's still alpha, the change is possible. And the mistake in the design of the language will remain forever after the release. THANK YOU! Reproduce code: --------------- \This\is::ugly() Expected result: ---------------- ::This::looks::better() Actual result: -------------- \This\is::ugly() -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=46943&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=46943&r=mysqlcfg
