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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Order of class resolution
	with	namespaces	and	autoload
From: chuck@horde.org (Chuck Hagenbuch)

Quoting Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>:

>> But you shouldn't even look for Exception then. I'm saying that if  
>> you want the global Exception class you should import it.
>
> That would be double bad - that means you have to go over all your  
> code and add :: to all instances of global classes, even though you  
> never ever intended to override any of them. I don't think it's a  
> good idea.

No, you just have to import them into your namespace, right next to  
the namespace declaration. Which solves both problems - ease of using  
global classes and the extra autoload.

Honestly I don't know if having a PHP:: namespace with an alias to the  
builtin classes is feasible, but if it is, then the simple, "put  
global classes into my namespace" ("register_globals" ;) option is:

namespace Test;
import PHP;

-chuck