Github user jpeach commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/556#issuecomment-208931667 They can be a good thing. It's not namespaces so much as the difficulty of code browsing the names within them. If you end up with very generic names in different namespaces, you need to keep a lot of mental context to know which one is being used, and many code browsing tools won't help to disambiguate. In general, I have found they can (though not always) hinder readability and maintenance. For C++ library APIs, it's a different story.
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