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

Well the difference is that C++ can figure out what to do at compile-time.
I don't think we can which means that it would put more logic into run-time
which is a bad thing IMO (especially for something new like this).
Or can you think of a way to differ between these at compile-time?
Andi

At 09:56 PM 9/30/2001 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>:: 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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