Re: [RFC] Namespace syntax decision

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote: > Hello Internals, > > we all were asked to stop discussing syntax of namespaces as we were told > that we would decide after the namespace functionality was fully implemented. > Now I think that the functionallity is pretty much settled we should > revisit the syntax. We all have been very patient so far. Anyway here goes > my take on it: > > PHP is very close to Java and C++ in terms of Syntax. And many of our users > are familiar with one or even both of them. Also we have a tendency to > especially take syntax from those two or be in line with those two > languages. That said I see two ways: > > 1) namespace foo { } Since multiple namespaces are allowed in the same file we have no choice but to use this syntax. Otherwise, I would have gone for package foo; -Hannes