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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace issues
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On the ZendCon, we (Marcus, Elizabeth, Andi and myself) had a talk about 
> what we'd like to do with namespaces, and we arrived at the following 
> conclusions, which we propose to implement in 5.3:
.....
> 3. Functions will not be allowed inside namespaces. We arrived to 
> conclusion that they are much more trouble than they're worth, and 
> summarily we would be better off without them. Most of the functionality 
> could be easily achieved using static class methods, and the rest may be 
> emulated with variable function names, etc.
> 
> Comments?
*IF* Functions can not be wrapped in a namespace then what *IS* the object of 
namespace?
I understood that namespace was to be a wrapper so that things with the same 
internal name could be isolated? If one of the main elements of a library 
can't then be included in the library namespace is there ANY point in adding 
namespaces at all?

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