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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages]
From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield)

On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > If PHP team release in the news:
> >
> > PHP has namespace support!
> > OR
> > PHP has package support!
> >
> > Everyone will understand what does that mean. Those that do not
>
> I wouldn't. And that's not because I'm so dense, but because "package"
> could mean anything, from next generation autoloader (I myself proposed
> such concept a while ago, and others did too) to integrating PHAR
> support into core.

That's a fair point, I think.  "Package" seems to imply "distributable".  
While one can use a namespace as a way to segregate a distributable package, 
that's not the only use of it and not the one I see myself using it for.

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