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Laravel makes extensive use of namespaces.

The omission of namepaces in the case of controllers was a calculated decision. PHP's implementation of namespaces is... inadequate, and would have required annoying workarounds, so prefixing controllers was the better evil.

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How is PHP's namespace implementation inadequate? Use-as statements are the staple of every PHP library that uses namespaces, and this seems like a half-measure to placate less-experienced programmers.

Sounds more like the skills of the dev involved are inadequate quite frankly.

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