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To: "Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]" <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Namespace-Scoped Visibility for Methods and
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From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sat, 8 Nov 2025, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:

> To spell those out, the prefix version could look like this:
> 
> namespace Acme\AuthLib\Somewhere\Deep\In\Package;
> // ...
> #[NamespacePrivate('Acme\AuthLib', includeChildren: true)]

Whatever the way to define a prefix is going to be, I disagree with that 
being done through attributes.

Nowhere in the language do these annotations (yet) interfere with 
how code can be run.

cheers,
Derick