This leaves the "Namespace" name available for future development if/as
Which means we officially declare PHP *doesn't* have namespaces (since we reserve the right to develop it in the future, it's obvious we didn't do it yet). Why it would be a good thing?
needed (such as if the language were to show itself to need more than one
namespace per file (or whatever the future may hold)).
So if we add braces we'd have to rename the keyword?
It can still be touted that PHP has "namespace support" regardless of
Yes, we'd have to say "we have namespace support but we call it packages" and when people ask "why?" we'd answer "well, because Java calls it so" and people would say "ah, so when you were saying PHP is not Java - *that's* what you meant!"
--
Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/
(408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com