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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inconsistencies in 5.3
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> 1) new keyword 'use'. Semantically it is the same as 'static' or 'global'
> so it should be used in the same location.

Of course it's not. It does entirely different thing from static or 
global, it doesn't even deal with variables.

> 2) namespaces, either use 'package' and only one per file, or use
> 'namespace' with curly braces. Read this as be consistent with other
> languages and even if one or two people do not like it the two main

I don't see any requirement for PHP to mimic other languages up to 
minute detail of keyword and separator usage.

> And there is no technical reason and surely no other reason whatsoever to
> not have curly braces. If there is then we either fix that or went with the
> wrong approach.

There are reason, and they were amply explained in past 10 revolutions 
of this topic.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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