PHP namespace separator
December 31st, 2008
I honestly thought that the namespace separator for PHP was a done deal, namely ‘::’. It was originally planned to introduce namespaces in PHP6, but they moved it to the upcoming PHP 5.3 and due to problems implementing that they made a last minute change to ‘\’.
A lot of people are happy that PHP will finally have support for namespaces, but a lot of people also think they made a really bad choice for the separator. Read more…
