Well, there's a patch available, but 2/3 of the active PHP committers (who participated in the vote) voted against its inclusion. However, of the end-users participating in the discussion, 17 out of 20 voted in favor. Shortly before the voting was concluded, there was a call for some user-land input, so I decided to humbly submit my two pennies.

His comments support the idea, noting that arrays are "our bread and butter" for the language and should be updated to make them even easier to use (and more in line with the declarations of other variable types).

I've been asked on the forum about my preferences in frameworks and I wrote a few thoughts about it.

These comments include the fact that eighty percent of his code is not in frameworks, that the Zend Framework is the more flexible of the group and that the right tools, methods and language structure is the real key to making for successful software development.

Every so often I try to use PDO under PHP5, and every time I run in to basic functionality problems with no ability to find out what's going on under the hood.

He includes a few comments supporting his statement including an issue where a prepare() call didn't work, his frustration with not being able to see what's "under the hood" and the lack of documentation to help with these sorts of issues.

• A post on the Stubbes blog by Frank Kleine and his discoveries of how the "use" keyword needs to be used in your applications
• A follow-up post from Frank as well correcting some of the problems in his first examples
• Some opinions from Richard Heyes on how useful they seem to him
• Brian Moon's comments on the level of traffic that the namespace discussion has been getting on the php.internals mailing list.

Right now there's so many ideas flying around about what namespaces should be and how they should be implemented that it'll be interesting to see which ideas finally come out on top.