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Posted by RageARC on 09/28/07 20:10
On 28 Sep, 15:09, "Steve" <no....@example.com> wrote:
> "RageARC" <rage...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:1190987748.408888.185590@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> > On 27 Sep, 22:41, "Steve" <no....@example.com> wrote:
> >> "RageARC" <rage...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >>news:1190928786.269812.158460@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
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> >> >> namespaces are
> >> >> invaluable, if you know what they are and how to use them.
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> >> > Of course, that's what I've been asking since my first post :S.
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> >> i know, i know...but with your last post re. collision, i think you
> >> understand their primary function. now, it's understanding when using
> >> them
> >> will aid your development. i'd google the web, were i you. i'm not gunna
> >> burn up my keyboard here over that part of the quandry. ;^)
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> >> >> that is a primary benefit of a namespace, but certainly not the only
> >> >> one.
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> >> > Call me a hard headed guy, but that's the only one I saw from the
> >> > posts I received from here:
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> >> again, i defer to google. you'll get it.
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> >> >>> What is it useful for?
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> >> >> Preventing name collisions. Say, you need to use two third-party
> >> >> libraries, and each of them contains a function named authenticate().
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> >> cheers
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> > AHA I believe I found the trick:
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> > All PHP extensions have their functions with the prefix of the
> > extension.
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> > curl_init...
> > curl_exec...
> > curl_close...
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> > This has a major drawback: The names of the functions become extremely
> > big and that is completely useless. In C++ (I know that because I know
> > C++, but I never used namespaces other than std), I would do the
> > following:
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> > --
> > using namespace curl;
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> > init...
> > exec...
> > close...
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> > --
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> > It's like with ZEND Framework (Just thought of that while reading
> > their documentation):
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> > using namespace zend;
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> > And then all ZEND functions would not need ZEND prefixing them.
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> > That should be the best part, I guess. Completely separating EVERY
> > single thing in a package to make it completely independent. That's
> > what is wanted in OOP, and namespaces are not needed if you have only
> > one class, but if you have 200 or 300, odds are they will clash with
> > other classes from other libs or even classes made by the users.
>
> ;^)
Was that the thumbs up for me? xD
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