Comments on: PHP gets a new namespace separator: \

By: AHSauge

AHSauge — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:29:36 +0000

Yeah, I agree. To be honost, it’s a bit weird really. -> are on most keyboards, if not all, a 1 + 2 key combination which really guaranties it to be a big disrupt in pace and typing. It would be a lot better if they’d use . as most other languages. It’s probably not a coincidence that most programming languages do use it. It’s a very common character which pretty much guaranties that it’s easily accessible on all keyboards, mean no use of shift, ctrl, alt or anything like that. Why they inspite of this went for -> is beond me. Might have something todo with PHP not being found of characters having multiple meanings depending on context, which would be quite lame considering there are other interpreted languages out there that don’t have that problem.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:41:15 +0000

Stupid as it is…
Darn, I don’t use classes in PHP only for the reason it’s too difficult to type “->” and “::” and it’s so C++’ish which I dislike from the bottom of my heart. Why can’t PHP be like other respectable object oriented languages? Why can’t we have the “.”s???

By: Dennis grouriRuh

Dennis grouriRuh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:23:52 +0000

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By: guillaume

guillaume — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:29:04 +0000

I agree, this is stupid