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List:       php-internals
Subject:    Re: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport
From:       136.159.238.143
Date:       2007-07-31 20:36:30
Message-ID: 84.E7.31116.05D9FA64 () pb1 ! pair ! com
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"internals-newb" answer. AFAIK namespaces was a feature originally 
planned for PHP 5. I believe the most important long term advantage is 
simply that projects using PHP 5 do not have to wait approx. 10 years 
(pure guestimation) until PHP 6 is widely supported to be able to begin 
to use namespaces.

Larry Garfield wrote:
> OK... internals-newb question.  Doesn't backporting everything from 6.x to 5.x 
> except Unicode automatically undermine PHP 6 adoption?  If PHP 5.5 ends up 
> being practically identical to PHP 6 unicode=off because everything has been 
> backported... what's the incentive for PHP 6 unicode=off to even exist?  
> Except of course for very subtle differences that didn't get backported so 
> 5.5 is *almost* PHP 6 unicode=off, so no one even deals with PHP 6 
> unicode=off except for those projects that actively try to run on everything 
> they can for mass-market compatibility.  
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be able to use namespaces earlier.  I'm 
> confused as to what the long-term advantage is here.
> 
> On Monday 23 July 2007, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>> Exactly, it will go to 5.3 of course.
>>
>> --Jani
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:06 +0400, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
>>> There is no way to put this patch into 5.2.
>>>
>>> Dmitry.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Timm Friebe [mailto:thekid@thekid.de]
>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:58 PM
>>>> To: PHPdev
>>>> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Namespaces patch backport
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've backported the namespaces patch to current CVS HEAD. Here it is:
>>>>
>>>>   http://sitten-polizei.de/php/php5-namespaces.diff
>>>>
>>>> I've tested it with the .phpt-tests Dmitry provided. Enjoy:)
>>>>
>>>> - Timm
>>>>
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