So, you decided to jump in to criticize a design decision that went in after several months of
discussion, without any insight into why it was done the way it was?
On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Sylvain Rabot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The comment I'm about to make is behind the times, and, now, useless, I
> know, but I can't hold me.
>
> You chose for the namespace feature, a great feature besides, the
> backslash ?? really ?? Come on guys, among all the possibilities, you
> have chosen, according to me, the most hideous character possible.
>
> Having Windows©®™ path like strings in the middle of source code is not
> something that is going to make me use the feature.
>
> PHP syntax was simple, clean. To me, the backslash token ruins
> everything. Using it aside from escaping was something I have never
> considered, have you ? Do you like it ?
>
> The goal of backslash was maybe to highlight namespace in the source
> code, if it was, congrats, we only see that now.
> To my opinion it breaks all esthetic's balance of a source code.
>
> No need to respond that I should have contribute to the choice, believe
> me, if I could have, I would have.
>
> This was just the comment of a simple guy which is very concerned about
> source code esthetic's and believes that a neat, well balanced code is
> more likely to be well maintained that any other one.
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>