You love continuing to bring up the Java like example, this discussion however is about PHP. PHP will never have namespacing nested like that in the base langua

You love continuing to bring up the Java like example, this discussion however is about PHP. PHP will never have namespacing nested like that in the base language, so no point beating that dead horse. > why is that bad for language wide utility functions? There's a handful of reasons, but one important one is backwards compatibility with existing codebases (naming collisions).