Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Jan 2009 09:52 UTC
The concept of Namespaces provides a way to help avoid problems with multiple functions, classes, and constants of the same name being defined multiple times. PHP 5.3 borrows much of the syntax and design of Namespaces from other languages â" most notably C++. However, it does deal with Namespaces in a somewhat unique way, which may cause problems for those familiar with Namespaces. This article takes a close look at PHP V5.3 namespaces, which is one of the most anticipated and the most debated feature in this release of PHP.
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I agree and realize that there are significant architectural problems with PHP (I also work with PHP every day and have been for many years), but my point was that when any PHP topic gets raised on OS news, there's a group of posters that start ranting about things that are offtopic.
We've all heard the negatives many times before, it'd be great just to discuss the topic at hand, which in this case was the implementation of namespaces.