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Subject: Question about Namespace patch
From: markus@fischer.name (Markus Fischer)

Hi,

I've a few questions about the namespace patch:

1) Why is "import Foo" a no-op?
Shouldn't it import everything define inside Foo?

2) How can I import all classes from a namespace at once?
Like question 1) actually. "import Foo::*" doesn't work.

3) Shouldn't there be an error when importing a class which already
existing in the current scope? Example

---------------8<--------------------
ns2.php:
<?php
	namespace Foo;
	class Bar {
		public function __construct() {
			echo "Namespace class\n";
		}
	}

ns1.php:
<?php
	require_once 'ns2.php';
	class Bar {
		public function __construct() {
			echo "No namespace class\n";
		}
	}
	import Foo::Bar;
	new Bar;


C:\...\Desktop\php6>php ns1.php
Namespace class
---------------8<--------------------

I read the thread an I know that I can still call access the global
class with ::Bar ... but is this a intuitive behaviour?

thanks,
- Markus