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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC: Dropping Namespace
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Gregory Beaver wrote:

> However, in the global scope (no namespace) it would fail.  This is a
> bug that is easily fixed.  use should allow re-aliasing of global
> classes, and I could provide a very easy fix.

No, use should not allow this. Take the following example:

<?php
namespace blah;
use DomDocument as test;

class DOMDocument { }

$dom = new DOMDocument; // 
$dom->loadXML('<books><book><title>blah</title></book></books>');
$s = simplexml_import_dom($dom);

echo $s->book[0]->title; // blah
?>

Besides this being a *big* WTF factor (why is my internal class 
suddendly doing something else?) simplexml will horrible fail in this 
case.

Derick

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