[development] namespaced global variables [WAS: Drupal 6.2 theme system standalone]

[Larry Garfield]

On Saturday 14 June 2008, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Syscrusher <syscrusher at 4th.com>:
> > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 16:47 +0200, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> >> Dries didn't like the idea when i floated it 5 years ago, but maybe
> >> it's time =)
> >
> > If we're talking about that kind of a major change, is it time to
> > revisit the question of whether Drupal should use PHP's OOP features,
> > now that the PHP language has better OO support than it did several
> > years ago?
>
> My opinion is that no and yes.  Some modules would benefit from the use
> of OO while the Drupal core functionality should remain procedural.

Drupal core should use procedural where it makes sense to do so, and OO where 
it makes sense to do so.

Contrib should use procedural where it makes sense to do so, and OO where it 
makes sense to do so.

PHP code should use procedural where it makes sense to do so, and OO where it 
makes sense to do so.

Religious adherence or distaste for one mechanism or the other is simply naive 
and damaging to the architecture of the project (any project, not just 
Drupal).

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