Discussion: Relative Namespaces?

[Rican7]

Referring to the problems found and "fixed" in #296, we should discuss whether allowing a relative namespace check in the relationship parser (or anywhere else) is a good idea.

Pros:

• Less code verbosity
• Less code repetition
  • most namespaced models will have related models in the same namespace

Cons:

• Doesn't follow PHP Conventions
  • There are currently no ways to declare relative namespaces anywhere in the SPL (Standard PHP Library)

[al-the-x]

This seems like a big headache for little benefit. There are so many potential rules to consider, even just looking at PHP... Does the absence of a leading \ character indicate a relative or absolute namespace? In use ActiveRecord\Model, no leading separator required, but in class Foo extends \ActiveRecord\Model or $foo = new \app\models\Foo I better use one or my namespace declaration will get tacked on the front. Of course, the classname resolver could go looking down a list of choices... Ugh.

[Rican7]

Yea, my thoughts exactly. I say that we get rid of the relative resolver.
Of course, this could easily break BC, so removing it should be a part of a new version (1.2?)

[al-the-x]

Agreed. It should be documented... BTW, did anyone tag those release points...? O_O