Mirmo Dynamics

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1 Christophe Maximin26/10/2008, 01:59

That was *exactly* my first thought.
I mean, really, wtf?

2 Thomas26/10/2008, 02:41

Problems:

• \ is used for escaping
• all existing namespaced code must be nearly rewritten, a simple search/replace of :: would not be possible.

http://wiki.php.net/rfc/backslashna...

no, really ?!

3 desfrenes26/10/2008, 08:51

Well... so what ? This rfc sticks to the long PHP tradition of wtfs :-)

4 p4bl026/10/2008, 10:38

This must be a joke,
i don't want to have my PHP namespace look like a windows path, and i don't know exactly on a qwerty keyboard, but on a french azerty keyboard it is much simpler to type '::' than '\' :-p

This must be a joke.

5 Christophe Maximin26/10/2008, 14:20

@desfrenes

Well, the problem is that they should better take their time to "synchronize" their functions' names style (stripslashes / strip_tags), arguments order, effects on variable passed as arguments (does it modify it or not?) and all this stuff...

6 desfrenes26/10/2008, 15:56

@Maximin

Despite getting better every year, I think PHP will always be this quirky/patchy langage at some point. Seriously, there's so much to do to make it a "clean" langage... and renaming functions is only a part of the job, think about stupid configuration directives such as magic_quotes, etc...
Being used to PHP I don't really mind its lack of consistency but I would surely not recommend it to, say, students, if it was not for its market share and easily available hosting.

7 NiKo26/10/2008, 18:23

I'm just understanding why I took some time to learn ruby and python as alternative languages :P

8 p4bl026/10/2008, 19:30

This just got slashdotted, so it true for real... :-( I really didn't think it as until now... :-/.