I don't think prefixing things with PHP makes a lot of sense to me for something like Date. For starters, it isn't very intuitive. But thinking more long term why name the class "PHPDate" now only to rename it to "Date" later when we get a PHP namespace? We're avoiding a BC break today when adoption is still getting off the ground only to have the same issue come back when the impact of the change will be even more painful.
Personally I think we should start making plans for what namespaces in PHP 6 will exist, and any and all new classes between now and then should be named as they will in PHP 6 within their respective namespaces. I rather sacrifice BC now for FC later. Cheers, John -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
