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To: Julian Reich <jr@eenterphace.org>
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Subject: Re: namespace implementation (irritating warning and autoload)
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver)

Julian Reich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently started porting an application to PHP 5.3.
> 
> 1. While testing the new namespace implementation I noticed the following:
> 
> <?php
> namespace Test1;
> function fooBar() { echo 'Test1::fooBar()' . PHP_EOL; }
> 
> namespace Test2;
> use Test1;
> Test1::fooBar();
> 
> Executing the code above results in a warning: "The use statement with 
> non-compound name 'Test1' has no effect in [...]".
> I understand the rationale behind this warning but it simply isn't true: 
> omitting the use statement results in a fatal error: "Class 
> 'Test2::Test1' not found in [...]".
> 
> Since the following code executes without warning or error I think the 
> code above (without use statement) should also execute just fine.
> 
> <?php
> namespace Test1::Test2;
> function fooBar() { echo 'Test1::Test2::fooBar()' . PHP_EOL; }
> 
> namespace Test3;
> Test1::Test2::fooBar();

This is a clear bug, please report it at bugs.php.net

Greg