I'm against ditching it. This on-again-off-again affair with namespaces really should be put to bed as I believe many in the community are really looking forward to them. If it is taken out of 5.3 this same line of logic will be used on all subsequent versions. I don't question it is a hard decision to make but waiting doesn't make it easier.
Now that said, I'd be all for holding off if consensus is more time = better ideas but from my lurking on the subject it seems this horse has been beating....badly.
--Tony
----- Original Message ----
From: Geoffrey Sneddon foolistbar@googlemail.com
To: Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org
Cc: PHP Development internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:56:11 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] namespaces and alpha3
- rip them out
I'm +1 on this. We simply don't have consensus, and I don't see anyway
we can have consensus by the time 5.3 has to be frozen. Once
namespaces are in, we're gonna have to stick with whatever we choose,
unless we totally break BC.
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Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/