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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages]
From: sfl@scotfl.ca (scott lewis)

On 16 Aug, 2007, at 1148, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

>> You can use zendspace. (Gregory) If you want me to get Johannes patch
>> and convert it to zendspace, just tell me.
>
> So it goes like this:
> PHP Group: "Good news everyone! PHP now has zendspaces!".
> PHP users: "WTF???"

PHP Group: "It's like a namespace -- but, you know, the PHP way."
PHP users: "Awesome!"


Alternately:

PHP Group: "Good news everyone! PHP now has namespaces!".
PHP users: "Awesome!"
PHP users: "Wait.. WTF? These don't act like namespaces - where are  
the braces?"
PHP users: "These act more like... Java packages. Why are they called  
namespaces?"


I would suggest that the world at large will react in the same  
fashion as this list. Using a name already in use by the most popular  
programming language in the world is going to create the expectation  
that the feature works in the same way. Using a different name will  
not create that false expectation, nor the subsequent confusion.

My $0.02
scott.