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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] solving the namespace conflict issues between function/static method class constant/ns constant
From: lew21st@gmail.com ("Janusz Lewandowski")

Having conflicting names of namespaces and classes is a idea bad from
the ground, and it should not be allowed. PHP should trigger a fatal
error when it sees it. Having two things with the same name is
unnatural and unneeded.

Syntax with -> is unnatural and unreadable. -> is for working with
objects, not for doing such odd things with namespaces. If you will do
this change in PHP, I will never use namespaces in PHP, and I will
start to look for a new language. Probably not only me.

Janusz Lewandowski