From: Iain Barnett <iainspeed@...>
Date: 2010-08-31T22:56:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Namespaces too looooooong


On 31 Aug 2010, at 12:54, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Probably because the bugs you mentioned above happen too infrequently
> (or not at all) in practice. 

I'd have to disagree. Like I said, when I was looking for best practice on the topic and couldn't find it, I did find lots of people moaning about libraries breaking each other due to not bothering to wrap themselves in a namespace.

I even found a gem someone had written a gem that fixes other gems' namespacing. Now *that* sounds like something broken.


On 31 Aug 2010, at 09:25, Philipp Kempgen wrote:

> Actually one of the few nice things about namespaces in PHP is the
> ability to import namespaces/classes using an alias.

Much as putting a namespace in a constant is much better than what I had before, I like the idea of `as`, or of `alias` extending to namespaces. It reads better, IMO.

Regards,
Iain