[Solar-talk] Namespaces

[Richard Thomas]

Isn't that going a little overboard, using name spaces just to use name 
spaces is a little much.

The idea of name spacing is to prevent collision of names, once you get 
past Solar:: your just making a mess..



Antti Holvikari wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Paul M Jones <pmjones at paul-m-jones.com> wrote:
>> Forwarding to create a new thread. ;-)
>>
>>  Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>  > From: Jeff Moore <jeff at mashery.com>
>>  > Date: February 29, 2008 15:08:40  CST
>>  > To: solar-talk at lists.solarphp.com
>>  > Subject: Re: [Solar-talk] Toward a Standard Project Structure
>>  > Reply-To: solar-talk at lists.solarphp.com
>>  >
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  > I just wanted to point out that the current autoloading mapping
>>  > might need to be reconsidered in light of namespaces.
>>  >
>>  > Does the Solar class belong inside a Solar namespace?  If so, the
>>  > file (Solar.php) would most likely go inside the Solar directory and
>>  > Solar::start() becomes Solar::Solar::start();
>>  >
>>  > Consider Solar_View.  With namespaces, will this become Solar::View?
>>  > Now Consider Solar_View_Helper.  Is this:
>>  >
>>  > Solar_View::Helper or Solar::View_Helper?
> 
> Hope I'm not missing something here but why not Solar::View::Helper?
> 
> I mean, why not just replace underscores with colons? Solar.php gets
> it's own namespace 'Solar'.
>