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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>:

> "import PHP" is a no-op now. However, I have another idea about it =20
> (besides the fix for the import thing that indeed looks like a bug =20
> to me) - what if we add some syntax to say "use this namespace" =20
> which would use autoload, so you'd say:
>
> namespace Test;
> throw new this::Exception();
>
> and it would mean Test::Exception (including autoloading). Without =20
> concentrating on 'this' name (we may have another, better name for =20
> that) would it make things better?

I don't think this helps; it means that you need to use the local =20
syntax every time you use a class, instead of importing it once, and =20
it doesn't resolve the fact that if you use a non-fully-qualified =20
classname (like Directory, for a different example), you need to say =20
::Directory or else if a previous file in your namespace has defined a =20
Directory class, the class you end up using changes.

This unpredictability is I think the worst part of the current implementatio=
n.

-chuck