[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: [pdt-dev] PHP 5.3.0 support

[Michael Spector <spektom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Some most needed features from me:

- Rework all PHP element views, so namespace will be visible as well.
- Code Assist namespace/static:: completion.
- Open namespace declaration.

Roy Ganor wrote:
> In a response to Runar Olsen,
>
> > "Is there any plans for adding support for the new language features 
> introduced in PHP 5.3.0 any time soon? I'm currently working on a 
> project of mine where I have started to take advantage of the newly 
> addition to the scope operator which allows you to use a variable as the 
> class name just like you can when creating a new class. Today this 
> results in a parse error in PDT."
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/plans/php_plan_1_1.php marks milestone #2 for 
> PHP 5.3 features. support. But it is obviously not relevant since PHP 
> 5.3 is delayed and there are features that are not code freeze yet.
> Meantime, we should think about a list of wanted PHP 5.3 IDE features, 
> since there are a few syntax and semantic innovations in this release 
> (like namespaces, lsb, etc.).
>
> Of course syntax coloring is the first step.
> Any ideas?