Hi
On 7/24/24 21:44, Nick Lockheart wrote:
Thank you. I've read through the RFC and see it was approved. Is it too
late to comment on this? My concern is that placing things into new and
arbitrary namespaces as per the RFC is just a different variation on
the global name problem.
Commenting is of course possible, but any changes would require another RFC.
In any case, the RFC's policy has already been used in the design of the new randomness API added in PHP 8.2.
I think a better solution would be to have one namespace for all
bundled classes, so that a specific namespace is reserved in advance.
Needing to prefix everything by \PHP or something like this would provide for a terrible developer experience when using the standard library.
There was a vote on something similar four years ago, 13(no)/17(yes),
declined. It was four votes shy of passing:
This is false. That RFC required a 2/3 majority to pass.
I think if we reserved \php and \ext, then there would be no need
to have multi-level namespaces, like the prior RFC proposed. I think
every standard class could just be \spl\classname without any naming
conflicts between core classes. And that would also avoid future
namespace collisions.
Not using sub-namespaces would require making the classnames overly specific, because there's some names that make sense in different domains. An example would be a Client or Connection.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus