Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces ambiguity From: Markus Fischer (mfischer <email protected>)
Date: 09/30/01

All I can say about this ... I don't want to language being
intelligent and try to assume any behaviour. In C (gosch, again.
No, I don't want to turn PHP into C) under certain cicumstances
you get ambiguousity warnings. But this wouldn't be a useful idea
for PHP because in C its only during compilation whereas in PHP
it would be runtime. I'ld like to as some kind of ambiguousity
parse error ...

        $test?FOO:BAR:BARBARA

And its unreadable too (perl). People will tend to mix up the
default behaviour even it would be $test?(FOO:BAR):BARBARA ...

- Markus

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:31:58PM +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote :
> Hey,
>
> I just started playing around with the parser to support the namespaces
> syntax Stig laid out in his RFC. I think I've thought of an ambiguity (with
> constants) which makes me wonder how feasible the proposed syntax is.
> Consider the following expression:
> $test?FOO:BAR:BARBARA
>
> Would this mean that the person meant $test?(FOO):(BAR:BARBARA) or
> $test?(FOO:BAR):BARBARA?
>
> Andi
>
>
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