[ciapug] Web Professionalism

[Carl Olsen]

I've only looked at PEAR briefly.

I see what you mean about the search and replace, so that makes me feel
better about it.

Right now, I have to type a "-" and a ">" to do a method call or fetch a
property.  I'd much rather type a "." since that's a key I'm much more
familiar with.  I can usually hit the "." key without looking at the
keyboard.  "Three colons" doesn't sound like much fun to me.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:56 AM
To: carl-olsen at mchsi.com; ciapug at cialug.org
Subject: Re: [ciapug] Web Professionalism



Carl Olsen wrote:
> I'm hoping they get that fixed before too much code gets written that way.

Have you seen PEAR?  That's all they use (for better or worse).  The PHP 
DEV's seem to not look at namespaces as a big issue.  In fact, I believe 
the phrase that rings in my head is "syntactic sugar".

Anyway, the good thing about doing it this way is when/if namespace 
support is implemented, you will only have to do search/replace.

FWIW, there's been a lot of recent discussion about this on php-dev. 
Sounds like they maybe getting more serious about it because they are 
arguing about what to use as the separator (e.g. '.' versus ':::', etc).

--Tony