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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages]
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

> PHP users: "Wait.. WTF? These don't act like namespaces - where are the 
> braces?"

That's like saying "BMW Z4 is not a car - it has only two seats!"

> PHP users: "These act more like... Java packages. Why are they called 
> namespaces?"

Java packages are namespace implementation, btw.
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