Object name collisions

Hi, I thought about posting this as a ticket at Lighthouse as a future "wish" item, but I'll post here instead.  One of the things that has bothered me about Cake has been that some of the built-in object names take names that would be very common for the user to want to use, for example "Model".  I was trying to whip up a quick demo for coworkers and created a database with automotive themed tables Makes, Models, Colors, and ColorsModels to show how "easy" it would be to do this in Cake.  Of course, after trying to bake I figured out that having a model named "Model" was probably not going to work!  Obviously my model "Model" was colliding with the base model.  Same thing happens if you want to create a model "Element" since the view folder Elements is for elements, or "Emails", etc...  Obviously I can rename my models to not be the same as a built in, but it seems like a structural problem that is always going to cause issues with someone.  For example, future CakePHP versions could release a new object that collides with one I already have. 

My initial idea is that perhaps the built in objects should be prefixed so even if you use the same name (without the prefix) everything is happy.  So Model would be _Model, AppModel=_AppModel, AppController=_AppController, etc... and then the user is free to use any model name he wants.  Or is there another way to solve the problem that I am not aware of?

Thanks for your time!

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