> When Adobe moved from Actionscript 2 to Actionscript 3 they placed all
> existing functions into a legacy namespace. Similarly, I believe that
> may be PHP's best shot for smoothing out the API.
>
> Basically, the current function library is moved to the legacy
> namespace. The default setting is import the functions of the legacy
> namespace into the root namespace for BC. But with that setting
> turned off all the existing functions go away to be replaced with a
> designed API, instead of a grown one, correcting the mistakes that
> have accumulated over the years.
>
I could get behind this actually. Not a bad idea.