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Subject: Namespaces Question
From: CaptainN@unFocus.com (Kevin Newman)

Hello,

I'm new here, but I have some ideas that I would like to share about 
implementing namespaces, but I'd like to know what the current state and 
issues of namespaces are before I share them.

I've read that there is a possible performance consideration involving 
two hash table lookups when using the scoping operator (str::replace 
etc.). I've also read that there were some language design issues to 
consider. What are the other issues?

I have done quite a bit of searching on google, zend.com and other 
places to try to find the answer to why namespaces were removed from php 
5, but was unable to find anything concrete. Some kind of a summary 
would be most appreciated. :-)

Thank you,

Kevin N.