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    "title": "Escape from Namespaces",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "PHP",
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    "created": "2008-10-27 14:26:20 UTC",
    "updated": [
        "2008-10-27 14:26:20 UTC"
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    "html": "<p>I admit that I am an unproductive whiner on this issue.  I don't care if namespaces go into PHP or not; at this point, I'd almost rather they not.  But some of my feelings as expressed on IM this morning:</p>\n<pre><code>\n09:13:08  pmjones: yayfornewnamespaceseparator\n09:13:12  pmjones: hmmmm\n09:13:19  nate: oh geez\n09:13:27  nate: I can't believe they picked *that* one\n09:13:33  pmjones: does that mean there are two newlines in that phrase?\n09:13:36  pmjones: who knows.\n09:13:53  nate: you should really post something like that\n09:14:01  pmjones: maybe PHP really *is* getting bought by Microsoft\n09:14:12  nate: yeah\n09:14:17  nate: you'd have at least thought they'd go with /\n09:14:31  pmjones: no, that's division\n09:14:38  pmjones: which might make sense, now that i think about it\n09:14:47  pmjones: for all the divisiveness we have over it\n09:14:51  nate: heh ;-)\n09:14:59  nate: you took the words out of my mouth\n09:15:03  nate: er, fingers\n09:15:06  pmjones: indeed\n09:15:16  pmjones: i know you want namespaces very badly ...\n09:15:23  pmjones: ... but do you want them *this* badly?\n09:15:45  nate: still undecided\n09:16:00  pmjones: if you want them badly, badly is what you've got ;-)\n</code></pre>\n<p>To explain the jokes:</p>\n<p>The \"n\" characters in the namespace string are escaped newlines; thus, \"yayfornewnamespaceseparator\" might well be translated as \"yayfor[newline]ew[newline]amespaceseparator\".  ASCII gurus will know what f and s translate to.</p>\n<p>Zend Is Not PHP, so Microsoft can't buy \"PHP\".  But the backslashes are very DOS-ish.</p>\n<p>Here ends the unproductive whining, at least for now.</p>\n"
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