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I agree with SR, the new namespaces feature has solved a number of problems for me which would have required horrible coding to solve otherwise. An example use: Say you are making a small script, and write a class to connect to a database, calling it 'connection'. If you find your script useful and gradually expand it into a large application, you may want to rename the class. Without namespaces, you have to change the name and every reference to it (say in inheriting objects), possibly creating a load of bugs. With namespaces you can drop the related classes into a namespace with one line of code, and less chance of errors. This is by no means one of the biggest problems namespaces solve; I would suggest reading about their advantages before citicising them. They provide an elegant solutions to several problems involved in creating complex systems. ---- Server IP: 92.48.100.16 Probable Submitter: 88.106.210.252 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.definition.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85589 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85589 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85589 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php