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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] </endnamespacediscussion>
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

Thanks for all your hard work guys. While \ separator is a bit weird,  
I wholeheartedly support the decision to use a distinct separator for  
namespaces.


On 25-Oct-08, at 2:07 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

> 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
>
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Ilia Alshanetsky