A Feature Worth Waiting For
In the last couple of days the PHP world is boiling with excitement, with discussions about namespaces implementation in PHP 6.0. In my non-internals eyes, Dimitry’s proposal looks both simple and elegant.
I have very little to say beyond what was already said by others - but there is one thing I feel needs to be said: A feature like namespaces is important and expected enough, and should be implemented even if it means postponing the release of PHP 6.0. Most PHP users didn’t migrate to PHP 5.x yet - so while they do that, both the planned Unicode support and the emerging namespaces suggestion can be implemented into PHP 6.0 - even if this means the release will be delayed.
Hear! Hear!
Namespacing will assist in the management of large codebases for companies with many php developers and hopefully do away with the annoying kludges we currently have to resort to with incorporating path information into class names.