Comments on: Disappointed with PHP namespace seperator decision

By: James

James — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:33:15 +0000

At first when I read this post, my response was “oh, come on — it’s a single character!” but, reading through the comments, I have to say I completely agree. As a consumer of a library, you should not need particular knowledge of the semantics used to build it.

What I would honestly love to see (but never will) is PHP admit they screwed up making . the character for string concatenation, switch it to + and then go about using . for what all the other languages do. no more -> , :: , \ bs just .

By: Mark Skilbeck

Mark Skilbeck — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:08:34 +0000

@mgkimsal

Of course it was meant to be funny. Jebus Christ.

By: mgkimsal

mgkimsal — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:48:04 +0000

Not at all Garfield. Not sure if that was intended to be funny or not, but it’s not. And no, %$# isn’t better at all. / or . would be better.

By: Garfield

Garfield — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:19:23 +0000

It shouldn’t be \
It should be %$#
For instance:

Framework%$#Database%$#Table%$#Exception

The namespace consists of “Framework”, “Database” and “Table”, while the class is “Exception”.

What do you think? Isn’t %$# much better?

By: Yaroukh

Yaroukh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:52:12 +0000

I’m not surprised. This seems to me to be typical for PHP.

@Gorgonzo Olgomaria Rothschild
+1

By: klawd

klawd — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:53:28 +0000

I read through all the comments and i agree with this one the most:

Fuck you for using the \ !!!!!!!!!!

\Foo\Bar just looks like a stupid fuck in the woods.

:: confusing with :::? AT LEAST ::: IS NOT AN ESCAPE OPERATOR!

By: Retad PHP trivs ändå » Artopod

Retad PHP trivs ändå » Artopod — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:31:44 +0000

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By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:42:00 +0000

Fuck you for using the \ !!!!!!!!!!

By: Gorgonzo Olgomaria Rothschild

Gorgonzo Olgomaria Rothschild — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:12:09 +0000

And this is (one of) the many reasons PHP sucks:

Java: Attribute/Method access: foo.bar Static method access: Foo.bar Package access: foo.bar.baz


C#:

Attribute/Method access: foo.bar

Static method access:    Foo.bar

Namespace access:        foo.bar.baz
Python:

Attribute/Method access: foo.bar

Static method access:    Foo.bar

Module access:           foo.bar.baz
PHP:

Attribute/Method access: $foo->bar

Static method access:    Foo::bar

Namespace access:        foo\bar\baz

By: web20vn

web20vn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:56:38 +0000

http://wiki.php.net/rfc/backslashnamespaces#use_as_namespace_separator

pear.php.net/~greg/backslash.sep.patch.txt

to PHP:

pear_php_net~greg::backslash->sep->patch->txt()