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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Christian,

Saturday, November 26, 2005, 1:42:07 AM, you wrote:

> 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.

And kill trillions of php scripts, how funny. Think before writing.

Best regards,
 Marcus