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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] alpha2 scheduled
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 01:43 +1030, Andrew Mason wrote:
> Both Perl and C++ use :: to success. i don't know how much of an
> overlap there is in PHP and Perl or C++ programmers, so I'm not
> suggesting it for familiarity reasons, but i have never heard anyone
> say "i wish C++/ Perl used a different namespace separator.

Yes, and as said multiple times: Using "::" is impossible and
alternatives were discussed multiple times, decision was made with
discussions over multiple years now.

So please let's move on and in a year or two we won't hear "anyone say
"i wish PHP used a different namespace separator""

Thanks for no further wasting of time. (neither yours nor mine, ...)
(except you find somethign which wasn't discussed within the last 5 yrs)

johannes