If PHP team release in the news:
PHP has namespace support!
OR
PHP has package support!
Everyone will understand what does that mean. Those that do not
I wouldn't. And that's not because I'm so dense, but because "package"
could mean anything, from next generation autoloader (I myself proposed
such concept a while ago, and others did too) to integrating PHAR
support into core.
understand are the ones that had never worked with it and can work in
Or worked with different ones enough to understand that "packages" is
used for a zillion of different things, while namespace is quite
well-defined concept. I quoted the wikipedia a number of times, let me
quote it once again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package
"A Java package is a mechanism for organizing Java classes into namespaces."
Now let you find a quote which says "A C++ namespace is a mechanism of
organizing C++ code into packages". I bet you won't find it - because
people explain un-obvious concepts in terms of more obvious ones, and
namespace is more obvious than package.
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