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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:32:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: namespace support
From: jrhernandez05@gmail.com (Jessie Hernandez)

Lukas,

I'm not having much spare time lately, but I'd like to continue working 
on the patch as soon as I can. Will the patch be needed only on PHP 6 or 
is there a possibility of including it in a minor version (5.3 or 5.4, 
perhaps)? If it's only for 6, I'll try to adapt my patch for it over the 
next few days.


Regards,

Jessie


Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Andrei asked me to bring up the topic of namespaces again. From the 
> meeting notes [1] and the following discussion it seems like we agreed 
> (once more) to include namespace support in PHP6. However after a time 
> where we saw a flurry of patches, things have died down. Also Marcus 
> does not seem to have a lot of time to take ownership of this task 
> (hopefully he might still have time to "mentor" whoever takes over).
> 
> Looking at Marcus's comments [2] following the removal of namespaces 
> from PHP5 due to issues noticed [3] it seems that the two major issues are:
> 1) finding a separator
> 2) fixing import
> 
> I propose we just move forward with "\" as the separator. It does not 
> require any fancy changes, so that we can focus on getting the 
> implementation right. We can always change the separator until the first 
> stable release if necessary.
> 
> A very good summary of the situation can be found here:
> http://phpnamespaces.org/wiki/start?rev=1171580102
> 
> So Jessie are you still interested? Does anyone with sufficient 
> ZendEngine2 karma have time to help him get a rock solid implementation 
> committed?
> 
> regards,
> Lukas
> 
> [1] http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#name-spaces
> [2] http://news.php.net/php.internals/2124
> [3] http://news.php.net/php.internals/798