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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:26:23 -0700
To: "Steph Fox" <steph@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespace separator and whining
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Steph Fox <steph@php.net> wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
>> Excuse me but while the idea to have an online meeting was great,
>> sending a mail to ask to attend an online meeting 24 hours before and
>> on a Friday was not a wised choice. I would have participated too if
>> it was during this week or the next weekend.
>
> You were actually online throughout it, and were notified that it was
> happening at the start. In fact you were the first person to blog the
> outcome of the meeting.

"I'm" always online, bot/proxy.

>> I do agree with Sebastian about not allowing functions and constants
>> (from a principle point of view, as I barely see any example out there
>> of NS and procedural code).
>
> Apart from PEAR?

That's a new feature for a not released PHP version. The large part of
the pear code base is OO anyway.


> @Pierre: we didn't have a 'private discussion'.

See my attempt to make this comment more clear.

> The need for a dev-only discussion will I think become apparent if you look
> at the detailed investigative reports Greg gave.

I tend to think that there is phases, some are more heat, other are
deadly quiet. Nothing that can really justify to create a larger wall
between our users and us, even if we sometimes like to silent some of
them :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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