Description:
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Hello.

As you might know a fairly large amount of PHP developers think that backslash (\) is an inappropriate symbol for namespace separator. [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=php%20namespace%20separator&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wb]

Two main reasons are:
1. It's ugly. (Indeed.)
2. Confusion with escaping.

As the roar strengthens, it's starting to appear that it might be one of the nails in the PHP coffin. Just look at the amount of FUD spread  because of this damned backslash...

For us, the PHP developers, it's very dangerous tendency, because we have invested a lot of our time (read: money) into PHP software.

Please, please, PLEASE reconsider that. I understand the problems with  "::", but I think there can be a solution - to throw fatal error when there's a conflict between static method name and the function in a namespace. (You can't declare two functions/classes with the same name, can you? And it is logical and expected behavior.) I'm sure it will make PHP programmers happy.

As it's still alpha, the change is possible. And the mistake in the design of the language will remain forever after the release.


THANK YOU!

Reproduce code:
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\This\is::ugly()

Expected result:
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::This::looks::better()

Actual result:
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\This\is::ugly()