[shakesbeard]

> and now 20 years later we are still stuck with the same garbage.

and it hasn't been an issue ever. because all userland code lives in its own namespaces.

[phplovesong]

It gets messy real fast. I have seen horrible long namespaces ala java all over the place. It only leads to bad design. Having no way to force things.

PHP messed up pretty big when they made this ad-hoc namespace thing.