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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PDM Meeting Notes
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Jessie Hernandez wrote:
> I saw the notes regarding namespaces, and it really suprised me that the 
> namespace patch was not looked at in detail, discarded, and then the 
> approach that was agreed on was _THE EXACT SAME ONE_ that my patch uses. 
> To add insult to injury, it's mentioned that Marcus was going to provide 
> a patch (my problem is not with Marcus, in fact, he was very supportive 
> and helpful when I was writing the patch and the __autoload mechanism 
> I'm using is thanks to his input. My problem is that my patch was 
> completely ignored and someone else was assigned to write a patch, when 
> the one I already wrote can be used).

How in the world do you know your patch was ignored?  It wasn't.  But it 
also isn't going to work as-is, especially in the new Unicode world, so 
it is going to take more than one person to play with it and see what 
can be done.  Marcus simply volunteered to do that.

-Rasmus