Unfortunately namespaces are not only syntactic sugar, but dire necessity
for PHP if it wants to be taken as a serious langauage and defend it's
position against other arising 'web scripting' alternatives.
It seems the list of things that PHP needs to be "taken as a serious langauage" is never ending. Before PHP 5, all that was needed was good OOP support. Now this. I am for namespaces, but that line is getting old and I, a professional, serious PHP developer and tired of hearing it.
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Brian Moon
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