Namespace Nitpicking

[hsnopi]

So I have a class

class MyLog{

  public static log($message)
  {
    //...do logging.
  }
}

also

namespace ASpace;

class Foo{

public function __construct()
{
    \MyLog::log('message');   //common usage
    //is this more correct as teh String object is int he global space? note the \ in the call
    \MyLog::log(\'message');
}
}

is it any faster/better to add the \ inside the parameter as in the second call to log int he Foo class?

[laserlight]

A quick test shows that you get an error trying to do the latter, so it would be wrong, at least for PHP 5.3.

[Derokorian]

It would be wrong in 5.4 as well. Strings (and other primitive types) are not objects in PHP, there for when creating a string, int, etc there is no ability to namespace it.

[traq]

[man]namespaces[/man] apply only to classes, interfaces, functions, and constants.

Everything else (including variables) is unaffected by namespacing.

[laserlight]

traq wrote:

namespaces apply only to classes, interfaces, functions, and constants.

I note that "constants" here mean named constants, since literals are sometimes regarded as constants too.