Question

Example using Namespace in PHP…

use \MyLibrary\Registry;
use \MyLibrary\User;
use \MyLibrary\Request;

namespace MyLibrary\Base
{
    class Base
    {
        public $registry;

        function __construct($registry)
        {
            $this->registry = $registry;
            $this->user = New User;
            $this->request = new Request;
            # code...
        }
    }
}

Now in C# the Namespace separator is more like this…

using MyLibrary.Registry;
using MyLibrary.User;
using MyLibrary.Request;

namespace MyLibrary.Base
{
    public partial class Base
    {
        public MyFunction(registry)
        {
            Code here
        }
    }
}

So I know there is a lot of complaints on the PHP namespace separator, so bad that some people don’t even use them because they hate the current backslash.

So I am curious, is there any way possible to Define your own Namespace separator to be used in PHP?

Answer 1

I’m afraid you can’t, it’s hard-wired into the language. Such a thing would be really difficult to do anyway, as other symbols already have meanings assigned to them in PHP (. is string concatinate, / is divide, * is multiply, etc).