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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inconsistencies in 5.3
From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver)

Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:32, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote:
>> On 04.08.2008, at 10:28, Stefan Priebsch wrote:
>>
>>> Hannes Magnusson schrieb:
>>>> I don't think anyone but him likes multiple namespaces per file. I do
>>>> remember a PhD thesis sized mail from him explaining why multiple
>>>> namespaces per file was needed though (can hardly believe anyone read
>>>> the whole thing..).
>>> In some deployment processes, multiple PHP files are merged together into
>>> one file. Symfony, for example, does this, at least optionally.
>>
>> Right, this is common practice to reduce disk I/O without having to make
>> development too hard. Also that way people can pick and choose what they
>> want to include (like not all drivers of a DBAL).
> 
> Fair enough.
> Then lets keep the name "namespace" and use curly braces.

I said it before, and I'll say it again, I am fine with this approach, 
especially with Dmitry's (old) proposed syntax allowing namespace-less 
code within namespace {}:

<?php
namespace foo {
class blah{}
}
namespace {
// put legacy code here
$a = new blah;
}
?>

Greg