Re: [PHP-DEV] Scope and namespace

[email protected] (Andrei Zmievski) Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:54:48 -0500
Newsgroups php.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> Not really, we can't.  You can have functions inside a namespace, that 
> don't have a class entry attached to them.
> I guess we could create some hybrid of the namespace and ce, but it would 
> end up being ugly, with many more extra checks.

Suppose we left only one field, scope. For those functions not attached
to a class, we'd have scope->type = ZEND_NAMESPACE, and for methods we'd
have scope->type = ZEND_USER_CLASS or something. Unless, you mean that
you want to keep track of both theh namespace and the class for methods.

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