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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:36:47 +0100
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Subject: [RFC] Namespace syntax decision
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Internals,

  we all were asked to stop discussing syntax of namespaces as we were told
that we would decide after the namespace functionality was fully implemented.
Now I think that the functionallity is pretty much settled we should
revisit the syntax. We all have been very patient so far. Anyway here goes
my take on it:

PHP is very close to Java and C++ in terms of Syntax. And many of our users
are familiar with one or even both of them. Also we have a tendency to
especially take syntax from those two or be in line with those two
languages. That said I see two ways:

1) namespace foo { }

2) package foo;

I favor 1) if we allow namespace nesting and 2) if not. The current way of
nesting is very confusing:
namespace foo; namespace bar;

Best regards,
 Marcus