for the sake of conversation - syntax

Afternoon All, Last week I got to thinking about PHP vs other languages.. sparing the details this is what I decided I'd like my code to look like :) [what *I* /as an OO developer/ need(?want)] <?php package com.mydom.thispackage { import com.anotherdom.MysqlDbHandler as DbHandlerA; import com.somedom.DbHandler as DbHandlerB; # "as" makes this easier import com.mydom.thatpackage.RssParser; # we don't have to "as" import net.php.pecl.Tidy into TidySpace; # "into namespace" import org.nicedom.alwaysusethese.*; # why not? public class MyClass # visibility on classes {

    private $dba:DbHandlerA = new DbHandlerA();
    private $dbb:DbHandlerB = new DbHandlerB();
    protected $xmlString:String;

    public function __construct( String $xml ):void #return types
    {
      if( TidySpace::tidy_is_xml( $xml ) ) { #namespace function call
        $this->xmlString = TidySpace::tidy_repair_string( $xml );
      }
    }

} } ?> all purely a made up example; I'd be interested to here any comments or what your ideal language (/modified php) would look like. Regards!