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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:07:06 +0200
Subject: </endnamespacediscussion>
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)

Hi all,

Thx to the initiative of Scott and Steph we had an IRC discussion with  
several code developers. The result is that we have decided to go with  
backslash as new separator for namespaces. The IRC log that  
illustrates why we in the end decided to go with changing the  
separator and the final decision on backslash can be found on the wiki  
[1].

Greg is working on a patch, however Dmitry said he will assist even  
though he was actually opposed to the decision we made in the end. I  
very much appreciate Dmitry accepting this decision in such a  
professional manner.

At the same time I hope that all people that have participated in this  
discussion accept this decision as one that was made by a sufficiently  
large subset of the development community. We did not take the  
decision lightly but we felt confident that this decision is for the  
best of PHP going forward.

As the patch is still under development it is yet unclear how this  
will affect the scheduling PHP 5.3.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org

[1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaceseparator