>  Similarly, allowing multiple namespaces per file does not limit the
>  developer in any way. Not allowing them does. I always thought a
>  language should be designed to empower it's developers, not get in
>  their way.

My opinion is that sometimes language *should* "get in the way" - if the 
developer is trying to do a wrong thing. Doing things right should be 
easy, doing things wrong should be hard. I agree that this means we 
should choose some definitions for right and wrong, and not everybody 
would necessarily agree, but I think the benefit of the clearer program 
structure exceeds the disadvantage of not being able to do some tricks.
That's one of the reasons why PHP doesn't have some things that other 
languages might have, such as nested classes, multiple inheritance or 
closures.
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