PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist

jeevesbond writes "PHP finally is finally getting support for namespaces. However, after a couple hours of conversation, the developers picked '\' as the separator, instead of the more popular '::'. Fredrik Holmström points out some problems with this approach. The criteria for selection were ease of typing and parsing, how hard it was to make a typo, IDE compatibility, and the number of characters."http://developers.slashdot.org/slash.../10/26/1610259
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