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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PDM Meeting Notes
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Jessie Hernandez wrote:
> The way the sentence was worded at 
> http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#name-spaces led me to 
> believe this:
> 
> "First we briefly discussed the current name space patch, but as we were 
> not all familiar with its workings we did not go into deep detail for 
> this. Then we saw an alternative implementation of name spaces with 
> "Modules"".

Yes, Dmitry has a module-based namespace patch as well.  Yours isn't 
actually the only working patch on the table right now and as the notes 
say, we looked at it.

> Anyways, from what you said, is namespace support only going to be added 
> in PHP 6? I have been basing my patch on 5.1, hoping that it would make 
> it before 6, as the patch is small and has absolutely no BC problems.

The entire meeting was exclusively about PHP 6.  We are too far along in 
the 5.1 process to make any large changes at this point.

-Rasmus