Similarly, allowing multiple namespaces per file does not limit the developer in any way. Not allowing them does. I always thought a language should be designed to empower it's developers, not get in their way.
My opinion is that sometimes language *should* "get in the way" - if the developer is trying to do a wrong thing. Doing things right should be easy, doing things wrong should be hard. I agree that this means we should choose some definitions for right and wrong, and not everybody would necessarily agree, but I think the benefit of the clearer program structure exceeds the disadvantage of not being able to do some tricks. That's one of the reasons why PHP doesn't have some things that other languages might have, such as nested classes, multiple inheritance or closures.
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