Posted by Steve on 09/28/07 22:15

"RageARC" <ragearc@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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...
>>
>> >> >> namespaces are
>> >> >> invaluable, if you know what they are and how to use them.
>>
>> >> > Of course, that's what I've been asking since my first post :S.
>>
>> >> 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. ;^)
>>
>> >> >> that is a primary benefit of a namespace, but certainly not the
>> >> >> only
>> >> >> one.
>>
>> >> > Call me a hard headed guy, but that's the only one I saw from the
>> >> > posts I received from here:
>>
>> >> again, i defer to google. you'll get it.
>>
>> >> >>> What is it useful for?
>>
>> >> >> Preventing name collisions. Say, you need to use two third-party
>> >> >> libraries, and each of them contains a function named
>> >> >> authenticate().
>>
>> >> cheers
>>
>> > AHA I believe I found the trick:
>>
>> > All PHP extensions have their functions with the prefix of the
>> > extension.
>>
>> > curl_init...
>> > curl_exec...
>> > curl_close...
>>
>> > 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:
>>
>> > --
>> > using namespace curl;
>>
>> > init...
>> > exec...
>> > close...
>>
>> > --
>>
>> > It's like with ZEND Framework (Just thought of that while reading
>> > their documentation):
>>
>> > using namespace zend;
>>
>> > And then all ZEND functions would not need ZEND prefixing them.
>>
>> > 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

two.

keep 'em truck'n

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