Re: Inconsistencies in 5.3

Dmitry Stogov wrote:

I don't like multiple namespaces per file too. As I remember they were introduced by Greg's request related to ext/phar. May be he already changed his mind. 'package' or 'namespace' is not so important for me.

To be correct, this has nothing to do with ext/phar, but everything to do with how PHP users do things now. There are several apps such as Doctrine that allow "compiling" their whole libraries into a single large file. This results in substantial performance improvement depending on app design both with and without opcode cache, verified independently by me and by Stas in Zend's labs. I personally probably won't be using multiple namespaces per file except in rare cases, but I see plenty of good reasons to allow it. Regards, Greg