namespace support

Hello, Andrei asked me to bring up the topic of namespaces again. From the meeting notes [1] and the following discussion it seems like we agreed (once more) to include namespace support in PHP6. However after a time where we saw a flurry of patches, things have died down. Also Marcus does not seem to have a lot of time to take ownership of this task (hopefully he might still have time to "mentor" whoever takes over). Looking at Marcus's comments [2] following the removal of namespaces from PHP5 due to issues noticed [3] it seems that the two major issues are: 1) finding a separator 2) fixing import I propose we just move forward with "\" as the separator. It does not require any fancy changes, so that we can focus on getting the implementation right. We can always change the separator until the first stable release if necessary. A very good summary of the situation can be found here: http://phpnamespaces.org/wiki/start?rev=1171580102 So Jessie are you still interested? Does anyone with sufficient ZendEngine2 karma have time to help him get a rock solid implementation committed? regards, Lukas [1] http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#name-spaces [2] http://news.php.net/php.internals/2124 [3] http://news.php.net/php.internals/798