[PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces ambiguity From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 09/30/01

:: is taken, but why not do it the C++ way? It also uses :: for both
classes and namespaces.

Zeev

At 21:35 30-09-01, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
>[Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>]
> > 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?
>
>Okay, is there another character we can use? Doesn't look that way.
>Maybe we need to use two characters then? Since both "::" and "->"
>are taken, "//" is the best suggestion I can come up with.
>
> - Stig
>
>--
> Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb <email protected>>
> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway 

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