I noticed a somehow weird thing -- most of this guides mention "use namespaces". As far as I remember, having no namespaces wasn't that much of a problem 5 yea

I noticed a somehow weird thing -- most of this guides mention "use namespaces". As far as I remember, having no namespaces wasn't that much of a problem 5 years ago. They used static class methods and that actually looked like a good ol' double-colon syntax. With that kind of atrociousness php team had put into the language and labeled "namespaces", I'd still resort to doing static methods, if I was still doing php. Backslashes? Really?