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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha2 scheduled
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> It wasn't designed to have multiple namespaces at all to begin with. But as

You mean multiple namespaces per file, right? Otherwise it sounds kind 
of silly. Yes, it wasn't designed to have multiple namespaces per file, 
and it's really bad idea to have multiple namespaces per file in 90% of 
the cases. In the remaining 10% it's probably a bad idea too.

> How so?
> 
> namespace foo {
>   namespace bar {
>     class baz {}
>   }
> }
> 
> According to your won words it is all about name substitution. Explicitly
> you were talking about simple text replacement. Now that in mind I see and

No, it's not simple replacement, because hierarchy brings hierarchical 
resolution, like it is in Ruby.
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