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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Concept] Flip relative function lookup order
 (global, then local)
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:42:38 -0400
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From: lists@ageofdream.com (Nick Lockheart)


>=20
> BUT, if people already complain about "\" being ugly, having to write
> "namespace\" is going to make them REALLY grumpy...
> So maybe at the same time (or, probably, in advance) we need to come
> up with a nicer syntax for explicitly referencing the current
> namespace.
> Unfortunately, finding unused syntax is hard, which is why we have
> "\" in the first place (and for the record, I think it works just
> fine), but maybe something like "_\" could work? Giving us:
> namespace Foo;
> $native_length =3D strlen('hello'); # same as \strlen('hello')
> =C2=A0$foo_length =3D _\strlen('hello'); #=C2=A0 same as \Foo\strlen('hel=
lo')
>=20


    namespace foo using global functions;

 - or -=20

    namespace foo using local functions;


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