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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)
From: nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes")

> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>   here again namespaces would be perfect. Given a lib that doesn't prefix
>> you'd simply do:
>> namespace LibNameHere { reqire "some_lib_include"; }
>> and be done...wohooo :-)
>
> Only if newly introduced PHP core classes use a namespace too. You'll have 
> to use PHP\Date (or the like) if you want to avoid conflicts in existing 
> code. Plus maybe something like "import PHP\Date as Date" or something 
> along these lines if you want to avoid PHP\ in newly written code where 
> you know that there is no Date class yet.
>
> PS: I'd rather have : for namespaces with the whitespace restriction for ? 
> a:x : b:y than the confusing (escaping characters outside of a string?) 
> backslash.
>
> - Chris

Have I missed something or what? Why not use C++ style for namespaces? 
backslash is really ugly!


Nuno