Re: RFC: short and inner classes

From: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:08:17 +0000
Subject: Re: RFC: short and inner classes
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On 14/03/2025 17:37, Rob Landers wrote:

What about a hybrid approach? Maybe something like \\ that Tim suggested?



I'm surprised nobody has pointed out yet that \ as namespace separator is already controversial because of how commonly it is used as an escape prefix, leading to a lot of situations where it has to be doubled.

A double backslash would be, literally, twice as bad, needing \\\\ (four backslashes) to reference the name in a string, a JSON or YAML config file, a Markdown tutorial, etc

As a perfect example of this, check out how the second paragraph is rendered wrong here: https://externals.io/message/126589#126741 (compare here: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/126741)


The other thing I wonder is whether the original reason why :: wasn't used as the namespace separator still applies, and needs to be accounted for here?

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Rowan Tommins
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