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Subject: Re: [RFC] Namespace syntax decision
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Gregory Beaver)

Marcus Boerger wrote:
> 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 did not notice until now that you had changed the keyword to package.
 -1 on this change.  Either namespace blah; or namespace blah {}.

Greg