Comments on: Escape from Namespaces

By: Les

Les — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:34:43 +0000

Yes…

The whitespace in Python is a killer for me too, far too much hassle for me to use it over PHP.

But just what are we going to do about this namespace separator? The backslash is complete and utter horse manure, and the individual responsible needs to hang their head in shame.

Bring back :: as that is more suitable to PHP and would someone please tell Microsoft where to go?

By: Rob Graham

Rob Graham — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:18:01 +0000

The \ (escape) character is only an escape character when it’s in a string, I’ve not looked but the namespace declaration is probably not surrounded in quotes. Personally I cannot wait for namespaces all this My_Package_Is_Called_This_SoThere is doing my head in.

By: Robert Treat

Robert Treat — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:20:55 +0000

Yeah, the DOS angle does kind of stick out… see my tweet on the subject http://twitter.com/robtreat2/status/976197774 (sound it out)

By: kvz

kvz — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:21:03 +0000

Nicely put.

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php namespace seperator, alternative? | Jenkins-Web — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:05:57 +0000

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By: Finally namespaces

Finally namespaces — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:13:44 +0000

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By: Ren

Ren — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00:19 +0000

\ is indeed bad.

But people suggesting using Python where white space is significant.. is far far worse, imo.

By: Chekke

Chekke — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:20:49 +0000

PHP blows!!, I’ll move to Python.

By: rodrigo moraes

rodrigo moraes — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:59:27 +0000

I’d like to have :-D as separator, because it’d really fit my happiness when working with Solar. Think on “Solar :-D Sql”: it’d be perfect!!!

hmmm, ok, i’ll be quiet now.

By: Stuart Herbert

Stuart Herbert — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:54:39 +0000

Sigh. Using the escape operator for another purpose … I really want namespaces in PHP, but I have to agree with you Paul that we have them badly.