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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:01:05 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC]
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 12/02/2020 21:47, Manuel Canga wrote:
> You is importing function and you are  using different. It is the same 
> case like:
>
> namespace MyProject;
>
> use Vendor/Controller;
>
> class Controller extends Controller {
> }


In that example, you're defining two things of the same type with the 
same name, which would be an error; that's not what was happening in my 
example.

In a call like Acme\Global\I18N::translate, or a callable like 
['Acme\Global\I18N', 'translate'], the "translate" part never refers to 
a function in the current namespace, or indeed any namespace, only to a 
method of that particular class.

But if you write ['Acme\Global\I18N', translate::function], there's no 
way for the engine to know that you wanted a method name rather than a 
function name, so it will try to resolve it in the current namespace and 
import list. That will either give an error, because there is no 
function called translate; or it will give you a fully-qualified name, 
which isn't what you wanted, you just wanted the string 'translate'.


Regards,

-- 
Rowan Tommins (né Collins)
[IMSoP]