During International PHP Conference 2008 there where a lot of discussions about the stupid backslash namespace seperator decision. Most of the guys “do not want to have their PHP files look like windows registry dumps” (Quoting some unknown guy at the panel discussion). Some people even suggested forking PHP at PHP 5.3 to replace the backslash with the more accepted tripple colon (:::).
Being a man of actions the first thing I did today was to fork PHP.
Proof is here.