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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dynamic class names and namespaces
From: magnus@php.net (Magnus =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E4=E4tt=E4?=)

On Sunday 21 October 2007, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > Using dynamic class names works fine without namespaces, but
> > doesn't work at all with namespaces. Take this simple example:
> > 
> > <?php
> > namespace test;
> > class Foo {}
> > $class = "Foo";
> > $foo = new test::$class();
> > ?>
> > 
> > Will produce the following message:
> > Fatal error: Class 'test::test' not found in foo.php on line Y
> 
> I don't think partially variable class name is supposed to work. It is 
> interesting though how the engine managed to parse this at all...

Ahh, I see, that's a bit disappointing. Any reason why it doesn't/shouldn't
work ?

/Magnus

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