On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Iv Ray <pobox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Shelley wrote: > >> Probably you have noticed this: >> The classes in a package are reused together. If you reuse one of the >> classes in a package, you reuse them all. >> If that's the case, then why not just use one class as one package? >> What's the point of splitting a package into several classes? :-( >> > > I think somebody already answered. > > It is actually up to you. > > My grandmother used to write letters starting with a capital letter, > writing the whole letter as one long sentence and ending with a dot. This > would perhaps confuse most high school teachers, but in her case it somehow > worked :) > > If we take this worn out example - if you have a class "dog" and a class > "cat" - it becomes quite clear why you need several classes. You can put > them in a package called "animals" - but as other people already noted, the > "packages" in php have only a symbolic role, just for clarity of code > organization. > Yeah, that's it. -- Regards, Shel
